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JOHN REDINGTON 

OF TOPSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS, 



WITH NOTES ON THE 



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CORNELIA M. KEDINGTON CARTER. 



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JOSIAH GRANVILLK LEACH, LL.B. 



BOSTON: 

Press of David Clapp & Son. 

1909. 



LIBRARY of CONGRESS 

Two Cciules Received 

FEB 23 l»Oil 

CLASS C*.- AXc. No, 






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Copyright, 1909, by 
Cornelia M. Redington Carter 



Reprinted with additions from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register 

for July, 1907 



FOKEWOKD. 



I have prepared this brief record for my descendants, in the hope that a 
knowledge of the simple lives of their ancestors may inspire them with 
that elemental simplicity of sonl which was the pole-star that guided the 
builders of our great Republic. 

Of some generations I have given detailed information, of other genera- 
tions, little, and of a few, nothing. Some " have left a name behind them 
that their praises might be reported. And some there be, who, having 
no memorial, are perished as though they had never been born." 

The memory of our forefathers has, however, been preserved : their 
past history outlined, and the widening stream of their descendants indi- 
cated, thereby affording a foundation upon which the future historian of 
the family may build. 

I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to all who have aided in this 
compilation, but particularly to my aunt, Mrs. Laura A. Redington Fer- 
guson (widow of the scholarly Dr. John Calhoun Ferguson), whose rever- 
ence for, and knowledge of her progenitors, has been the mainspring of 
my own enthusiasm, and whose example has taught me that pride of race 
with love of country constitutes true patriotism. 

Cornelia Redington Carter. 
Philadelphia, April 21, 1908. 



'' 'Tis man's worst deed 
To let the things that have been run to waste, 
And in the uuraeauing present sink the past : 
In whose dim glas? even now I faiutly read 
Old buried forms and faces long ago." 

Charles Lamb. 



LIST OF illustratio:n^s. 



PoKTRAiT OF JosEPH ALEXANDER Redington Frontispiece y 

Page 
Silhouettes of Captain John and Mrs. Redington - 3 . 

Ipswich River at Topsfield, Massachusetts - - - 7- 

ToLLAND Street, Tolland, Connecticut - - - - 9 - 

Haynes House, West Parish, Haverhill, Massachusetts 13^ 

Gravestone of Captain John Redington - - - \hy 

Portrait of Mrs. John Calhoun Ferguson - - - 17 

Portrait of John Wales Redington - - - - 19*' 

William T. Carter Junior Republic, Main Building - 25^ 

Furniture which belonged to Captain Redington - - 29- 

" Long House," Lawyersville, New, York ... 33^ 

St. Wilfred's, Calverly, Yorkshire 37 

House of Reverend Elkanah Wales, Pudsey, Yorkshire 43 "^ 

Portrait of Honorable Leonard Eugene Wales - - 51 

Portrait of Honorable Edmund Levi Bull Wales - 57 " 

Portrait of Mrs. Elisha Smith Wales .... sg*' 

Portrait of Mrs. John Redington - - - - - 61/ 



REDINGTON LINEAGE. 



Zaccheus Gould m. Phebe 

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Captain John^ Redington m. Mary Gould. 



Lieut. DanieP Redington m. Elizabeth Davison. 

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Jacob^ Redington m. Elizabeth Hubbard. 



Daniel* Redington m. Hannah Haynes. 

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Captain .John^ Redington m. (2) Laura Wales. 



Joseph^ Alexander Redington m. Chloe Lewis. 

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Cornelia^ Miranda Redington m. William Thornton Carter. 
Helen Eliza Redington m. Henry Herschel Adams. 
Walter Joseph Redington m. Clara B. Case. 
.Tulia Mary Redington m. John Brackett Moore. 
Stella Josephine Redington m. Henry Haller Mitchell. 



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JOirX REDINGTOX OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., AND SOME 

OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 



NoTiiiNo definite is kuowu of the immediate forbears of John* Redixg- 
TON and his brother Abraham Kedington, who were among the founders of 
Topsfield, Massachusetts. But it is possible that they were of Hertford- 
shire, England, and of the parish of Ilunsden there, as the name is to be 
found in this and adjoining parishes from the time of Richard III.* 

The tradition in various branches of the family is that thev were of 
Hemel-IIempstead, in Hertfordshire, some twenty-four miles northward 
from London. The origin of this is in the fact of tlie baptism in that parisli 
of Mary GouM the wife of .John Ri-dington of Topsfield, but in the sacra- 
mental registers of Hemel-Hempstead the name of Redingtou does not 
a])pear.t 

•Henry Hcdynffton appears ao one of the Collectors of the Guild of St. John the 
Baptist, St. Michael's Porish, Bishop's Stortford, Herts., 8 Kichard UI. 

tFcw names are more infrequent in the Eii-Ii.h counties than that of Roding- 
ton; indeed it is almost confineti to those of Herts, Lssex and Berks. 

Un the south side of the cloisters of St. Geofffo's, Windsor, is a tahlet thus inscrihed : 
"Near this place are .leposite.l «h. . „f William Kedington, late of Newo 

Windsor, gent, who died June Uth, i: , „ I 52 years. 

A rlrtuous coarse Ttom early youth ticiran, 

I'rochihncd (' m mid u.lorn<a thf man, 

Ills mauDiTK .. tfuipir ihunuiuK -trif.-. 

DiflXiitid a luitro eVn in private lifu. 

Such vlrtu«'« In a humbler sphere were shown, 

As pride and pomp mijrlit not dlKtaln to own. 

With «lxli» of Knitltuile till- poor deplore 

Tliiir K<iierou» benefactor— now no more. 

Their tears of love neighbours and children blend, 

A.\D all bewail their unlverxal friend. 

Him. who, while living, lived for humiin kind, 

And, dylDK, left a spotless name behind." 

In Ireland the name appears from the time of the Cromwellian invasion, when an 
Knglish olViccr acipiired considerable estate in Kilcornan, co. Gulway, and die<l in 
1717, leaving a son, Thomas Kedington, Esq., born in 1697, who married, in 1729, Mar- 
garet, daughter of Capt. Lynch of Ly.lican, co. Galway, and dying at Creganna Castle, 
CO. (Jahvuy, in 1780, lelt four sous and two daughters: 

i. Nicholas Kedington, of Merc Hill and Kye Hill, co. Galway, who married (1) 
Mary Hamilton of Fairfield, co. {;alway ; (2) Marcclla, daughter of Christo- 
pher Burke, Esq., of Kilcornan, who survived him. He died in 180G, and 
was succeeded by his nephew, Thomas Kedington, Esq., of Kyc Hill. 

ii. Gregory Kedington, went to Axncrica. 



It has been conjectured that the Redingtons accompanied Zaccheas 
Gould from the Old World to Massachusetts, and they may have been 
with him at Weymouth in 1639, and at Lynn from that date until 1644; 
but in 1645, they v/ere certainly among the settlers at New Meadows Vil- 
lage, as the land near the Ipswich River had come to be called, and they 
may have been earlier attracted to its fertile vales and rolling hills, and 
may have actively sympathized with Zaccheus Gould's petition to the 

iii. Michael Redington, married, in 1763, Margaret Frencli of Cork, and had; 
L Thomas Redington of Rye Hill, successor to his uncle, Nicholas. 

2. Sarah Redington, married Tully. 

3. Mary Redington, married Lawless. 

4. Bridget Redington, married George Taaflfe of Grange, co. Roscommon, 
iv. Thomas Redington, b. 1742; died 27 Feb., 1827; married, ixi 1763, Sarah, 

daughter and heiress of Christopher Burke, Esq., of Kilcoman, by whom 
he had : 

1. Thomas Redington, b. 1769; d. unmarried in 1803. 

2. jSTicholas Redino;ton, b. 1779; d. unmarried in 1798. 

3. Margaret Redington, m. 1785, Thomas, 1st Baron Ffrench of Castle 

Ffrench, co. Galway. 

4. Honore Redington, m. 1791, Malachy Daly of Raford, co. Galway. 

5. Christopher Redington, b. 1780 ; captain in the army ; married, in 1812, 

Frances, only daughter of Henry Dowell, Esq., of Cadiz, descended 
from a younger branch of the Dowells of Mantua, co. Roscommon ; d. 
26 May, 1825, leaving with a daughter Anne, who d. unmarried in 1829, 
an only son and successor. Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington, K.C.B., of 
Kilcornan. 

V. Elizabeth Redington, m. Archdeacon, Esq. 

vi. Mary Redington, m. Rutledge, Esq., and died in 1763, leaving two 

daughters, the elder m. Ormsby, Esq., and the younger m. William 

Birmingham, Esq., of Ross Hill, and was mother of the Countess Leithrim 
and Charlemond. 

Thomas Redington, Esq., of Rye Hill, above named, born in 1767; married, in 
1802, Eleanor, daughter of John Dolphin, Esq., of Turoe, and had issue six daugliters. 
He died, in 1828, and the male representation devolved upon his nephew, 

Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington, born at Kilcornan, 2 Oct., 1815; educated at Oscott 
College, Birmingham, and at Christ's College, Cambridge, but did not graduate ; M.P. 
for Dundalk, 1837-1846; under-Secretary for Ireland in 1846; Secretary to the Board 
of Control, Dec, 1852, which office he resigned in 1856 ; received the Order of the Bath 
in 1849 ; died at London, 11 Oct., 1862 ; married 30 Aug., 1842, Anne Eliza Mary, eldest 
daughter and co-heiress of John Hyacinth Talbot, Esq., M.P., of Talbot Hall, co. 
Wexford, and had : 

i. Rt.-Hon'ble Christopher Redington, b. 1847 ; educated at Oscott College, and 
at Christ's College, Cambridge; Resident Commissioner of Education for 
Ireland in 1894 ; and Vice-Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland. 

ii. Thomas Redington, b. 1857; d. 1859. 

iii. Anne Eliza Redington. 

iv. Mary Thresa Redington. 

V. Frances Redington, m. 1865, John Wilson Lynch of Dures, co. Galway, and 
Belvoir, co. Clare. 

vi. Matilda Redington. 

The family bore for arms : Per chevron in chief two demi lions rampant and a 
mullet in base. Crest — A lion rampant. Motto : Pro rege sape — pro patria semper. 



General Court, that the new settlement should be named Hempstead, from 
the parish in Hertfordshire in which the petitioner had his early home. 
This application the Court overruled, in compliment to the Honorable 
Samuel Symonds, then a member of the Court, and later Deputy-Governor 
of the Colony, and the village of the " Newe Meadows " was named Tops- 
field, 18 October, 1648, and from this time John Redington was one of its 
leading citizens, as his brother, Abraham Redington,* was of Boxford. 

Possessing ability, education and considerable worldly substance, John 
Redington was in 1648 made the first town clerk of Topsfield, and so con- 
tinued, with possibly some interruptions, until 1671 ; and it is a subject for 
much regret that his history of the organization of the town government, and 
of the fiirst ten years of its official existence, were irretrievably swept away 
by the fire which consumed his house in the autumn of 1658, or in the en- 
suing winter, as the earliest entry now to be found on the town records is 
under date of 25 Mar., 1659. A slight testimony of his eihciency as town 
officer is gathered from the deposition, before the Essex County Court, 
held at Ipswich, 26 Mar., 1661, of "Walter Roper, aged about fifty-two 
years, in which this deponent " doth further witness That this sayd grant 
is before [^orn] was in Cleere terms recorded into Towue book [<orn] 
Topsfield wch now they of Topsfield saye was b[/on?] when John Reding- 
ton's house was burnt, for [/or/j] sayd booke was kept." t 

No doubt much that was valuable to the householder was destroyed with 
the town's book, and, though something may have been left, the struggle 
with new conditions had to be rebegun, and the town tax-list of the next 
decade, 1 669, is the evidence that it was courageously met, and rewarded 
with a considerable measure of success, for the name of John Redington 
therein appears third in the valuation of estates. 

Nor was he so absorbed in material gain that he failed in ready response 
to any call tending to the well-being and advancement of the community 
in which he lived. 

He was clerk of the writs, 1658, 1660; selectman, 1661, 1676-77, 
1679-80, 1682, 1684-5 ; and served on the Grand Jury, 1678, 1679, and 
1683. Also, he was chosen to be captain of the militia of his vicinity, his 
selection in this matter being thus recorded : " The inhabitants & soldiery 
of Topsfield and the villages adjoining thereto according to an order from 
Major Dennison met together the 21 of the 4mo 1666 and chose officers as 
follows : John Redington of Topsfield head officer in commanding or lead- 

* Abraham Redington, Esq., represented Boxford in the General Court of Massa- 
chusetts of 1686, and died at Boxford, 12 September, 1697. By his wife Margaret, who 
died 3 February, 169-1, he had several daughters and one son, Thomas Redington, 
through whom a distinguished posterity perpetuates this branch of the Redingtons. 
Alfred P. Redington, of San Francisco, California, is preparing a genealogy of his 
descendants. 

t Essex County Court Papers, vi, 74. 



ing the comi^any, Joseph Bigsbey sennior, sergeant, Abraham Redington, 
senior of the village Clerk of the band, Edmond Town, John Coming, 
Wm Smith, corporals. Request to Court for Confirmation signed by Dan. 
Hovey and Mr. Avril in the name of the rest. Request allowed." * 

Mr. Rediugton was active not only in town affairs, but in those of the 
Church as well, and, on 29 July, 1681, was one of a committee " to discuss 
with " the Rev. Joseph Capen " to stay and preach here with us at Tops- 
field awhile," and at the time of Mr. Capen's ordination, 11 June, 1684, 
his name appears second on the membership list. 

According to his will of 7 Nov., 1690, his years then were "seventy or 
thereabouts," and his estate, inventoried at £1008. 1. 8, was to be divided 
between his son Daniel (who was given the land in Topsfield along the 
Ipswich River whereon the testator lived) ; the children of his daughter 
Mary, deceased, " those she had by her last husband, Robert Cue, as well 
as those by her former husband, John Herrick ; daughter Martha, " now 
the wife of John Gould living near Reading; " and daughter Phebe, " wife 
of Samuel Fisk in Wenham." His wife is mentioned, but not by name.f 
He died at Topsfield, 15 Nov., 1690. 

John Redington married (1) about 1648, Mary, daughter of Zaccheus 
and Phebe Gould of Topsfield, who was baptized at Hemel-Hempstead, 
Hertfordshire, 19 Dec, 1621, and whose paternal ancestry has been traced 
through many generations of English yeomanry ;| and married (2) Sarah 
, who survived him. 

Children, born at Topsfield : 

i. JoHN,^ b. June 20, lG-19; d. in Mar. following. 

ii. Mary, b. 4 May, 1651 ; m. (1) 25 May, 1674, John Herrick of Beverly ; 
m. (2) 13 Mar., 1682, Eicharcl Cue of Salem. 

iii. Phebe (twin), b. 7 Apr., 1655; m. 6 Nov., 1679, Samuel Fisk of 
Wenham. 

iv. Martha (twin), m. as his second wife, John Gould, Jr., b. 5 Aug., 
1648, d. 24 Jan., 1712, sou of John and Johanna Gould of Charles- 
town Upper Village. After the death of her husband, she moved 
to Stoneham, Mass., where she made her will 17 Aug., 1731. 
2. V. Daniel, b. 17 Mar., 1657; d. 27 or 28 Sept., 1732; m. Elizabeth 
Davison. 

vi. Sarah, b. 12 Mar., 1658-9; d. in July, 1689; m. as his third wife, 
21 Dec, 1687, Capt. Christopher Osgood; no issue. 

2. Dea. Daniel^ Redington (Jo/m^) was born at Topsfield, 17 Mar,, 
1657, and died there, intestate, 27 or 28 Sept., 1732. He inherited 
the paternal estate on the Ipswich River in Topsfield, to w^hich he 
added by grant and purchase until, in 1723, according to the Tops- 

* Essex County Court Papers, xi, 131. 

t Essex County Probate Files. 

X See family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield. 



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field " Bill of Estates," the valuation of his property in the town 
was only exceeded by four others. Like his father, he was a man 
of affairs, — civil, military and ecclesiastical, — holding from early 
manhood, almost every town oifice ; was constable 1682 : selectman 
1688, 1690, 1692, 1697, 1705-6; clerk of the writs, at a special 
meeting, 1690; jury-man 1690, 1701 ; grand juror 1699, 1704, 1711, 
1713-14, 1717, 1719, 1723; and representative to the General 
Court 1704-5, He was sergeant of militia as early as 1684, and 
later lieutenant. On 15 Apr., 1716, he was made deacon of the 
Topsfield church, and so remained until 27 Sept., 1729, when, by 
reason of age, he was succeeded by Jacob Peabody. 

Just before his death, his family and that of Ephraim Wildes, son 
of that Sarah Wildes who had been executed durinjj the witchcraft 
excitement, signed, 14 June, 1731, "an agreement to end strife and 
let the boundaries [between their respective properties] remain as 
their fore-fathers had established."* 

He married at Topsfield, 23 Mar., 1681, Elizabeth Davison, who 
died there, 8 Oct., 1732. She was, doubtless, a daughter of Daniel 
Davison, Sen., of Ipswich. 

Children, born at Topsfield : 

i. Maky,:" b. 12 Mar., 1682; d. young. 

ii. John, b. 23 Mar., 1683. 

iii. Maugahet, b. 27 Oct., 1084 ; m. 19 July, 1716, Jonathan Lummus of 

Ipswich, 
iv. Elizahktu, b. 14 Apr., 1686; d. young. 

3. v. Daniel (twin), b. 27 Sept., 1687; d. 29 June. 1750; m. (1) Thila- 

delphia Peabody; m. (2) Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, 
vi. EuzA (twin). 

vii. Maky, bapt. 17 Mar., 1688-9; m. 14 Apr., 1715, Nathaniel Perkins, 
viii. Sarah, b. 6 Feb., 1690. 

4. ix. "William, b. 13 Mar., 1691-2; d. 1746; m. Elizabeth . 

x. Phkue, bapt. 13 Aug., 1693. 

6. xi. Jacou, b. 5 Sept., 1695; d. in 1773; m. Elizabeth Hubbard. 

6. xii. PniNEAS, b. 19 Oct., 1697; m. Dorothy Davison. 

7. xiii. Ahhamam, b. 4 Oct., 1699; m. Mary Baylcy. 

xiv. Nathaniel, b. 10 May, 1701; wounded in the expedition against 
Cape Breton ; petitioned the General Court for an allowance by 
reason of his disabilities, which was alloAved by the Committee of 
War, 11 June, 1747. t 

XV. DoKC.\s, b. 14 Nov., 1702. 

xvi. M^uiTHA, b. 4 May, 1704; m. 17 June, 1731, Daniel Clark. 

3. Daniel' Redington {Dea. Daniel,^ John^) was born in Topsfield, 
27 Sept., 1687, and died there, 29 June, 1750. By deed of gift, 

* Essex County Registry of Deeds, Hx, 1. 

t Acts and Resolves of the Province of Massachusetts, viii, 604. 



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7 June, 1729, his father set over to him part of his "farm or home 
lying within the Township of Topsfield on both sides of the highway 
that goeth before my door, being part upland and part meadow, and 
the south easterly part of my farm upon which my son Daniel's 
house and barn now stands."* 

He held various town offices, was jury-man 1729, 1742; select- 
man 1737-1741, 1745-46 ; on school committee 1741 ; constable 
1742; grand-juror 1744, 1748. His will of 29 June, 1750, proved 
9 July, the same year, named wife Elizabeth, son Daniel, and daugh- 
ter Anna. 

He married (1), 27 Feb., 1721, Philadelphia, born at Topsfield, 
28 Sept., 1698, died 23 Oct., 1743, daughter of Isaac Peabody, and 
granddaughter of Lieut. Francis Peabody, who, like the Goulds and 
Redingtons, was a native of Hertfordshire ; and married (2) at 
Andover, 3 July, 1746, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens of that place, by 
whom he had no issue. 

Children, by first wife, born at Topsfield : 

i. Daniel/ b. 7 Dec, 1722; cl. young. 

ii. Thomas, b. 25 Nov., 1724; cl. 25 Oct., 1736. 

iii. Sarah, b. 16 May, 1728; d. 5 Oct., 1736. 

iv. Dorcas, b. 2 Mar., 1730; d. 28 Oct., 1736. 

V. Maegaret, bapt. 29 Sept., 1734; d. 25 Oct., 1736. 

vi. Anna, b. 18 Oct., 1737. 

vii. Daniel, b. 24 Mar., 1739; m. Esther . 

4. William^ Redington {Dea. Daniel,^ Johi^) was bom at Topsfield, 
13 Mar., 1691-2, and received from his father, 7 June, 1729, a 
portion of his farmstead there, uj^on which he afterwards resided. He 
was jury-man 1724, 1731, 1742; selectman 1727-28, 1733 ; school- 
master 1729-1731 ; and grand-juror, 1743. He died, intestate, pos- 
sibly from hardships endured in the memorable expedition to Cape 
Breton in 1745, in which he had served as Lieutenant in Captain 
Hill's Company of Artificers, being commissioned by General Sir 
Peter Warren, 11 June, 1745. f In the account filed by the widow 
in the settlement of his estate, is this item : " wages due to my hus- 
band by the Committee of War." 

The date of his marriage and the surname of his wife Elizabeth 
have not been ascertained. She survived him, and administered on 
his estate, 7 July, 1746.| 

Children : 

i. William.^ It was probably he who was sergeant in the 3d Com- 
pany, 8th Regt., under Col. John Choat, in the expedition against 

* Essex County Registry of Deeds, xiii, 126-7; Ixxvii, 174; xcvii, 125. 
t New Eng. Hist. Gen. Register, xxiv, 378. 
X Essex County Probate Files, No. 23445. 



Louisburg in 1749 ; and also probably he whose intention of mar- 
riage to Elizabeth Burrill, 17 June, 1742, was recorded at Boston, 
as was also his marriage to Mary Wright, 19 Apr., 1744. Issue: 
Mary, bapt. at New North Church, Boston, as dau. of "William and 
Mary, 3 Mar., 1744-5, who, as a minor daughter " under fourteen 
years of William Eedington late of Boston," had Elizabeth Rediug- 
ton, widow, of Topsfleld, appointed as her guardian, 1 May, 1749. 

ii. Elizabeth, b. 3 Sept., 1723; m. 16 Sept., 1746, John Hood. 

iii. Mary, m. 22 Nov., 1744, Samuel Howlett, Jr.; dismissed to the 
church at Woodstock, Conn., 4 Nov., 1749. 
9. iv. John, b. 12 Aug., 1726; m. Sarah West. 

V. Jonathan, b. 28 Jan., 1730; bapt. 14 Feb., 1731; "died in ye war 
1755." 

5. Jacob^ Redington (Dea. Daniel,^ John}) was born at Topsfield, 5 
Sept., 1695, and died at Richmond, Mass., in 1773, before 21 May 
of that year. He was constable 1735 ; and selectman and jury-man 
1736. 

Animated by " the Great desire ... to promote good learning 
among the Children and Youth in the Neighborhood," he made 
over to the town of Topsfield, 28 Sept., 1738, a tract of land on the 
" South side of Ipswich River for the purpose of a School House,"* 
which is the first school-house of record in Topsfield. On 11 Mar., 
1740, he sold his residence and lands in Topsfield, and removed with 
his family to Connecticut, where he purchased, 3 Aug., 1741, one 
hundred acres of land with mansion house thereon, in Ellington 
Parish, Windsor, being then styled as "■ late of Topsfield ; " f and 
on 26 Apr., 1748, he acquired an equal acreage in Tolland, Conn., 
on the ''road leading from the Keating House to Beaver Brook,"$ 
and disposed of the same to his sons, all of whom, for a time at 
least, were residents of Tolland. About 1760, the Berkshire hills 
began to attract settlers from Connecticut, and between 1765 and 
1770, he and his surviving sons removed to Richmond, where he 
died, intestate, the inventory of his estate being filed 21 May, 1773. 
He married, at Topsfield, 12 Nov., 1719, Elizabeth, born at Ber- 
wick, Me., 13 Feb., 1697, daughter of Philip Hubbard of the Parish 
of St. Saviour, Isle of Jersey, and of Berwick, Me., by his wife 
Elizabeth (Goodwin), widow of Zachariah Emery. She was ad- 
mitted to membership in the Church of Topsfield, 3 May, 1730, and 
was dismissed to the Fourth Church of Windsor, 8 Apr., 1742. § 

Children, all, except the youngest, bom at Topsfield : 
i. Dorcas," bapt. 9 Aug., 1724; d. 1 Dec, 1729. 

* Essex County Registry of Deeds, Ixxix, 87. 
t Windsor Land Records, vii, 191. 
J Tolland Land Records, iv, 216. 
§ Hubbard Genealogy. 



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10. ii. D.v>riEL, bapt. 26 Feb., 1726 ; d. at Albany, N. Y., 1760 ; m. Hannah 

Haynes. 

11. iii. Jacob, bapt. 25 May, 1729; d. 7 Mar., 1804. 

12. iv. Nathaniel, b. abt. 1731; d. 1762; m. Sarah Haynes. 

V. DoKCAS, bapt. 11 June, 1732 ; d. 16 May, 1751 ; m. at Tolland, 6 Sept., 

1750, John West, Jr. 
vi. Phebe, bapt. 28 Dec, 1735; d. at Tolland, 24 Sept., 1770; m. there, 

8 Dec, 1757, Jacob Fellows. 

13. vii. Eliphalet, bapt. 11 June, 1738; d. 30 May, 1814; m. Anna Kings- 

bury, 
viii. Olive, b. at Windsor, 23 Dec, 1741 ; m. 3 Sept., 1761, Eleazer West, 
b. at Tolland, 20 Nov., 1739, d. at Clarksburg, Va., 16 May, 1788. 
Issue: 1. Charles. 2. Thankful. 3. Olive, b. at Glass Work 
Grants, Conn., 11 July, 1775; d. at Paris, Ky., 10 June, 1831; m. 
at Clarksburg, 9 May, 1795, Dr. George Selden. 

6. Phineas* Redington (Bea. Daniel,^ John^) was born at Topsfield, 

19 Oct., 1697, and died at Lebanon, Conn., 19 Sept., 1763. He was 
grand-juror 1730 ; constable 1736 ; on school committee 1738 ; and 
selectman 1740. On 7 June, 1729, he had a conveyance, from his 
father, of a dwelling house and lands in Topsfield, bounded by those 
already given to his brothers Abraham, Daniel and William. These 
he afterwards sold, and removed to Lebanon, where, on 30 Mar., 
1741, he purchased land, being then styled as "late of Topsfield in 
Massachusetts."* His will of 16 Sept., 1763, dated at Lebanon, 
was proved 6 Oct. following, and named wife Dorothy, daughters 
Dorothy Munsell and Aim Wright, t 

He married, at Ipswich, 8 Nov., 1726, Dorothy Davison, who 
died in July, 1784. 

Children, born at Topsfield : 
i. Dorothy,* b. 20 Aug., 1727; m. at Lebanon, 26 May, 1750, Elisha 

Munsell. 
ii. Anne, b. 11 Dec, 1730; m. at Lebanon, Benjamin Wright, Jr., of 

Lebanon, 
iii. Phineas, b. 7 Jan., 1733 ; d. 2 May, 1735. 
iv. Sarah, b. 10 Mar., 1735 ; d. 9 Sept. following. 
V. Phineas, b. 22 Sept., 1738; d. 16 May, 1739. 

7. Abraham' Redington {Dea. Daniel,'^ John^) was born at Topsfield, 

4 Oct., 1699, and there remained until 1735, when his name appears 
on the "Account Book" of Thomas Newcombet of Lebanon, be- 
ing set down as of Mansfield, Conn., where, while still of Topsfield, 
he bought a farmstead, 19 Mar., 1733, and where he continued until 
after 10 Sept., 1754. § 

* Lebanon Land Records, vi, 207. 

t Windham County, Conn., Probate Records, vi, 471. 

J New Eng. Hist. Gen. Register, xxxi, 294. 

$ Mansfield Land Records, iii, 435 ; v, 605. 



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He married, at Topsfield, 29 Aug., 1733, Mary Bayley. Their 
first child was born at Topsfield, the others at Mansfield. 
Children : 

i. Abraham,* b. 9 Nov., 1734 ; d. at Mansfield, 30 Oct., 1735. 

ii. Abraham, b. 11 Aug., 1736 ; served iu the campaign against Canada, 

in the 3d Company, 2d Regt. Connecticut militia, under Maj. Isaac 

Foot, from 6 May to 30 Sept., 1758. 
iii. Daniel, b. 13 Apr., 1738; "marched to the relief of Fort William 

Henry," in 5th Regt., Connecticut militia, under Capt. Jonathan 

Rudd, in Aug., 1757. 
iv. Mary, b. 11 Feb., 1740. 
V. Phineas, b. 6 July, 1742; reported in the "hospital at Albany, 13 

June to 31 Oct., 1760." 
vi. Phebe, b. 6 Sept., 1744. 
vii. William, b. 25 Jan., 1746; d. 21 Aug., 1748. 
viii. Enoch, b. 7 Mar., 1749; bapt. at Mansfield, as an adult, 10 Dec, 

1775 ; served as sergt. in Capt. Nathaniel Wales' Company of Conn. 

militia in the Revolution, being dismissed tlierefrom 17 Oct., 1776 ; 

removed to Lebanon, N. H., where he d. 14 Jan., 1826. He mar- 
ried Huldah , and had issue. 

ix. Ann, b. 30 May, 1751. 
X. Olive, b. 6 Dec, 1754. 

8. Daniel^ Redington {Daniel,^ Dea. Daniel,"^ John^) was born at 
Topsfield, 24 Mar., 1739, and according to family traditions, died 
as a soldier during the Revolution. He was called " late of Tops- 
field, deceased," 29 May, 1779, when Bartholomew Dodge was ap- 
pointed guardian to his eldest son. 

He married Esther . 

Children, born at Topsfield : 

i. Esther,* b. 3 Dec, 1761 ; m. Thompson of Antrim, N. H. 

ii. Daniel, b. 28 Aug., 1763 ; was a Revolutionary soldier ; appears in a 
descriptive list of men raised in Essex County for a term of nine 
months, agreeable to Resolve of 20 Apr., 1778, as " aged 17 years, 
stature 5 ft. 6 in., complexion brown, residence Wenham." He 
served in various later engagements, and it was doubtless he who 
was captured on the ship Essex, 16 June, 1781, being described as 
of Wenham, and committed to Old Mill Prison, near Plymouth, 
England. In 1811 he was in Canada, and in 1819 of Warren 
County, Ohio. 

iii. Jacob, b. 6 Aug., 1766; d. young. 

iv. John, b. 11 Mar., 1769; had Isaac Averill appointed his guardian, 
5 May, 1785 ; removed to Tioga Point, N. Y. 

V. Adam, bapt. 17 Mar., 1771; m. (1) 15 May, 1793, Hannah, dau. of 
Capt. Israel Dodge of Wenham, who d. 21 June, 1800 ; m. (2) 
22 Nov., 1800, Sarah Knowlton; resided at Wenham during his 
early married life, and later removed to Wendell, N. H. Issue: 
1. John,^ d. 27 Jan., 1795, aged 10 mos. 2. John, b. 11 May, 1798 ; 
m. Mary Patch of Beverly. 3. Hannah Dodge, bapt. 19 Dec, 



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1802, 4. Ayma Mudge, b. 23 Aug., 1803. 5. Jacob, b. 19 May, 

1805. 6. Manj, bapt. 14 May, 1809. 7. Esther, bapt. 19 May, 1811. 
vi. Olive, d. 13 Mar., 1857, aged 85 yrs. ; m. 10 Mar., 1796, Capt. Israel 

Clark, 
vii. Anna, b. 30 June, 1775; d. 12 Nov., 1840; m. 23 Sept., 1796, John 

Mudge of Lynn. 

9. John* Redington ( WiUiamy^ Dea. Daniel,^ John}) was born at Tops- 
field, 12 Aug., 1726. He removed to Tolland, Conn., shortly after 
his father's death aud before 1750, and continued a resident there 
as late as 25 Jan., 1787, when he was a witness to a deed of Aaron 
Woodward.* 

He married, at Tolland, 30 Aug., 1750, Sarah, daughter of Samuel 
West of Tolland, born 21 Mar., 1729, and named in her father's 
will of Jan., 1778, as "daughter Sarah Redington."t 

Children, born in Tolland : 

i. Ann,* b. 22 Feb., 1752. 

ii. William, b. 4 Sept., and d. 19 Oct., 1754. 

iii. Elizabeth, b. 29 July, 1756; m. at Coventry, Conn., 18 Mar., 1775, 

Samuel Ladd, Jr., of Coventry, and later of Sharon, Vt. 
iv. Sarah, b. 29 Jan., 1759. 
V. Submit, b. 29 Jan., 1762. 
vi. Maky, b. 12 Mar., 1765. 
vii. John, b. 8 Aug., 1767. 
viii. William, b. 8 Aug., 1767. 

10. Daniel* Redington {Jacob^ Dea. Daniel^ John^) was baptized at 
Topsfield, 26 Feb., 1726, and removed to Tolland, before 14 Sept., 
1748, where he acquired from his father one hundred acres of land.J 
He returned to Essex County, and lived for a time, after his mar- 
riage, at Haverhill, and was enrolled in the 1st Company of Haver- 
hill militia, raised in 1757 for the reduction of Canada,§ and died 
in service at Albany, N. Y., about 1761. An interesting letter 
from his widow, dated 6 Feb., 1762, and addressed to Hon. John 
Choate, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Essex County, 
sets forth that her " late husband, Daniel Redington, of Haverhill, 
deceased intestate, more than a year ago at Albany . . . that he 
having neither father, brother, or any other near relation living in 
this Province, do desire that my father Joseph Haynes who is a 
considerable creditor on his estate may be appointed administrator." || 
He married, at Haverhill, being then called of Tolland, 2 Jan., 

• Tolland Records, viii, 122. 

t Staffoi-d, Conn., Probate District, ii, 87-8. 

J Tolland Land Records, iv, 216. 

§ Chase's History of Haverhill, 347. 

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1752, Hannah, daughter of Joseph Haynes,* by his wife Elizabeth 
Clement of Haverhill, born at Haverhill, 27 Mar., 1735, died at 
Tolland, 28 Mar., 1783. On 11 Feb., 1762, she married second, at 
Tolland, as his second wife, Joshua Morgan of that town, by whom 
she had ten children.f 
Child, born at Haverhill : 

14. i. John,* b. 29 Sept., 1757 ; d. 30 Apr., 183C ; m. (1) Miriam Watkins ; 
m. (2) Laura "Wales. 

11. Jacob^ Redington {Jacoh^ Dea. Daniel,"^ John}) was baptized at 
Topsfield, 25 May, 1729, and died at Richmond, Mass., 7 Mar., 
1804. He accompanied his father to Windsor and Tolland, and at 
the latter place, by deed of gift from his father, 4 Jan., 1762, se- 
cured a farm adjoining that of his brother, Nathaniel,^ and removed 

* Joseph Haynes, Esq., was born at Haverhill, 25 Jan., 1715, and died there, 26 Dec, 
1801. His residence, in the West Parish, is still standing, and is marked by a tablet 
as one of the historic dwellings of the town. He was a man of force, much native 
ability, and the author of several monographs on theological subjects, and one of the 
first delegates from Haverhill to the Provincial Congress organized at Salem, Mass., in 
Oct., 1774. He married (1) at Haverhill, 1 Aug., 1734, Elizabeth Clement, born at 
Haverhill, 6 Mar., 1716; died there 27 Feb., 1756; daughter of Nathaniel Clement, 
great-grandson- of Robert Clement, Esq., one of the early settlers of Haverhill. By 
this marriage he had three children. His second wife was Mehitable, daughter of Dea. 
Jonathan Marsh, who survived him. 

His father, Thomas Haynes, was born at Newbury, Mass., 14 May, 1680, and died at 
Haverhill, 6 Dec, 1771. He was taken prisoner by the Indians, 22 Feb., 1698, carried 
to Pennacook (Concord, N. H.), and remained in captivity for nearly a year. When 
he was ransomed the Indian chief gave him an ornamented cane as a token of respect 
for his behavior while a prisoner. The cane is still in the possession of his descendants. 
He married, at Haverhill, 22 Dec, 1703, Hannah Harriman, born at Haverhill, 29 Nov., 
1677; died there, 13 Feb., 1761; daughter of Matthew Harriman of Haverhill, and 
granddaughter of Robert Swan, Esq., of the same town. 

Jonathan Haynes, the father of the preceding, and the first ancestor of this family 
in America, was one of the early settlers of Newbury, but removed with his family to 
Haverhill about 1686 and settled in the West Parish of Haverhill, on the River road. On 
15 Aug., 1696, he, with four of his children, Mary, Thomas, Jonathan and Joseph, were 
captured by the Indians and taken to Pennacook. He and the son Thomas escaped, 
Mary was afterwards redeemed, Jonathan and Joseph were returned, but married in 
Canada, and became wealthy farmers. Mr. Haynes was killed by the Indians at 
Haverhill, 22 Feb., 1698. He married (1) at Newbury, 1 Jan., 1674, Mary Moulton, 
who died soon ; (2) at Hampton, Mass., 30 Dec, 1674, her sister, Sarah Moulton, born 
at Hampton, 17 Dec, 1656, daughter of William Moulton by his wife Margaret Page of 
Hampton, and granddaughter of Robert Page, Esq., of Ormsby, County Norfolk, Eng- 
land, and Hampton, Mass. His eleven children were by the second marriage. For 
further particulars of the family, see The New England Genealogical Register, Vol. 
IX, pp. 349-351. 

t John Morgan and Hannah (Haynes) Redington had at Tolland : 1. Hannah, b. 21 
Dec, 1762. 2. Joshua, b. 21 July, 1764. 3. Diantha, b. 4 Nov., 1766. 4. Joel, b. 24 
Mar., 1769. 5. Achsha, b. 15 June, 1771; d. 2 Oct., 1775. 6. Elizabeth, b. 17 April, 
1774 ; d. 16 Sept., 1775. 7. Mehitable, twin of Elizabeth. 8. Achsha, b. 27 May, 1777. 
9. Daniel, b. 8 Nov., 1779. 10. Amos, b. 15 Jan., 1781. 

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to Richmond shortly afterward. He served as a private in the 8th 
Company, 1st Regiment, Conn, militia, in the French and Indian 
War campaign of 1759 ; and also in the Revolution, under various 
enlistments, in the militia of Berkshire County, Mass., " called out 
to re-inforce the Northern Army," at Saratoga and Ticonderoga in 
1777.* 

He married (1) ; and married (2) Bridget , who 

d. 26 Feb., 1819, aged 71 years. 

Children by first wife : 

i. Daniel," d. 14 Apr., 1837, aged seventy-seven years and two months ; 

buried at Lawj'ersville, Schoharie County, N. Y. 
ii. Margaret, m. "William West. 
ill. Elizabeth, m. John Flower, 
iv. John. 

Children by second wife, recorded at Richmond : 

V. West, b. 4 June, 1778 ; of Butternuts, N. Y., 1819. 

vi. LuciNDA, b. 20 Mar., 1780. 

vii. Phebe (twin), b. 23 Jan., 1782; m. 1 Dec, 1809, John Cooli; was 
of East Haddam, Conn., Feb., 1819. 

viii. Olive (twin), d. before Feb., 1819 ; m. 5 Dec, 1805, Erastus Rossiter 
of Richmond. 

Ix. Polly, b. 6 Sept., 1784; d. 20 Feb., 1809. 

X. Jacob, b. 16 Dec, 1786. 

xi. Eli, b. 12 Sept., 1789; d. in New York City, before Feb., 1819; m. 
LydiaBurr. Issue: 1. Mary Ann,^ h. 30 Oct., 1810. 2. George 
Franklin, b. 23 Sept., 1813; d. 1875; m. (1) Martha Heddenbergh 
Bush, b. at Sheffield, Mass., 19 Apr., 1820, by whom he had six 
children,! all born at Troy, Penn., where he had settled shortly 
before his marriage. He m. (2) 25 Oct., 1865, Emma Julia Pierce. 

12. Nathaniel* Redington {Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel,^ John^) was born at 
Topsfield, about 1731, and died in the French and Indian War, 
about Aug., 1762. After the removal of his family to Connecticut, 
by deed of gift from his father he held land at Windsor and 
at Tolland, but upon his marriage, he made his residence for 
a time at Haverhill, where, in 1757, he was enrolled in the 1st 
militia Company, and was one of the detachment under Ens. Joseph 

♦Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution. 

t The children of this marriage were : 1. Robert Francis EnsignP Redington, b. 1 Feb., 
1840 ; d. in Troy, Penn., 10 .Jan., 1900 ; m. (1) 21 Oct., 1863, Mary Jane Pierce, by whom 
he had issue; m. (2) 1 Dec, 1877, Frances E. Spaulding. 2. Lucy Redington, b. 28 
July, 1841 ; d. 25 Nov., 1889 ; m. 28 July, 1864, Stuart Morse, M.D., of Englewood, New 
Jersey. 3. Edmund Bush Redington, b. 16 Apr., 1843; m. 7 Nov., 1864, Maria Louise 
Strait, by whom lie had issue ; resides in Troy. i.,Marg Redington, b. 6 Sept., 1845; 
m. 16 Oct., 1867, Orlando Tyner Saltmarsh of Troy, and has issue. 5. Amiie Reding- 
ton, b. 25 Dec, 1847; d. 25 May, 1848. 6. Laura Morse Redington, b. 1 Jan., 1851; d. 
8 Dec, 1872; m. 14 Dec, 1869, Edward F. Johnson, and had one child, who died in 
infancy. 




Gravestone ok Captain [ohn REniNfrroN at Lavvversville, New York 



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Badger, Jr., that marclied, 16 Aug., 1759, on the last alarm for the 
relief of Fort William Henry.* He was also sergeant in the 8th 
Company, Ist Conn, militia, under Capt. Edward Barnard of Wind- 
sor, in the campaign of 1759, and his name is on the pay-roll of 
Col. Israel Putnam's Company, same Regiment, in the campaign of 
1762, enlisting 17 Mar., and reported "dead" 8 Sept., 1762.t 

He married, at Haverhill, 6 May, 1751, Sarah, daughter of Joseph 
Haynes, and sister of the wife of his brother Daniel, born at Haver- 
hill, 31 Oct., 1736 ; died in 1772 ; married (2) Mr. Frink of Conn. 

Children : 

i. Elizabeth,^ b. at Haverhill, 4 Sept., 1756. 
ii. Sakah, b. at Haverhill, 7 Dec, 1757. 

15. iii. Jacob, b. at Tolland, 4 July, 1769; d. 22 Aug., 1843; m. Eunice 

King. 

13. Eliphalet'' Redington {Jacoh,^ Dea. Daniel,''' John}) was baptized 

at Topsfield, 11 June, 1738, and died at Richmond, 30 May, 1814. 
He lived at Tolland and Richmond, and his will, dated at Richmond, 
proved 7 June, 181 4, | provided for wife Anna, and children Eliphalet, 
Nathaniel, Anna Rathbone, Polly Smith, Love Rathburn, and Phebe 
Coggswell. During the earlier years of the Revolution, he was al- 
most continuously in service, and marched to re-inforce the Northern 
army, and was at Ticonderoga and Stillwater. § 

He married, at Tolland, 22 Oct., 1761, Anna Kingsbury, born 
at Coventry, Conn., 10 May, 1745, died at Richmond, 7 Feb., 1810. 

Children : 

16. i. NAXnANiEL,* b. 18 Oct., 1762; d. 4 Oct., 1839; m. (1) Polly Gris- 

wold ; m. (2) Temperance Gates. 

ii. Anna, b. at Tolland, 14 Sept., 1764; m. 16 Mar., 1789, Daniel Rath- 
burn. 

iii. Matiy Lucy, b. at Tolland, 23 Sept., 1766; m. 4 May. 1797, Dr. Gil- 
bert Smith. 

iv. Love, m. Rathburn. 

V. Phebe, b. 19 May, 1771 ; d. 11 Apr., 1816; m. 10 Nov., 1790, Elisha 
Coggswell. 

vi. Eliphalet, b. 5 Jan., 1774; m. 9 Nov., 1796, Elizabeth , b. 

8 Aug., 1774. Issue: 1. Mira,^ b. 27 Sept., 1797. 2. liemsen, 
b. 23 Mar., 1800. 3. Theresa, b. 8 Mar., 1803. 4. Alexander 
Hamilton, b. 27 May, 1807; d. 20 Nov., 1809. 5. Alexander Hyde, 
b. 10 Sept., 1811. 

14. Capt. ,John^ Redington (Daniel,'^ Jacob,^ Dea. Dcmiel,' John^) was 

* Chase's History of Haverhill, 347, 350. 
t French and Indian War Rolls, of Connecticut. 
+ Berkshire County Probate Files, No. 3218. 
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born at Haverhill, Mass., 29 Sept., 1757, aud baptized there, 2 Oct. 
following. After the death of his father in service in the Canada 
campaign of 1757-1761, his mother removed to Tolland, where she 
had some estate, and he there resided until the outbreak of the Revo- 
lution, in which, under enlistments from Ashford, Mansfield, and 
Tolland, he served until the close of the war.* He was at Princeton 
and Trenton, at the surrender of Burgoj'ne, and in 1781, while 
scouting, was captured and imprisoned in the Sugar House in New 
York. After peace was declared, he settled in what is now Law- 
yersville, Schoharie County, N. Y., on " a tract of four thousand 
acres, which was called ' The Patent,' and which the people always 
called ' Redington's Patent,' until General Lawyer came there to 
reside and changed the name to Lawyersville." Here he was in com- 
mand of the second company of cavalry raised in the county. He 
also represented his district in the thirty-fifth session of the New 
York Assembly, in 1812. 

"Upon the death of George Washington in 1799, Gen. James 
Dana and Capt. John Redington held a funeral service at the home 
of the latter, under the order of Free Masonry, which was perhaps 
as imposing a ceremony as was ever witnessed in the town of Law- 
yersville. The two heroes were the cliief mourners, and the high 
appreciation in which they held the sainted General and President 
for his virtues and patriotism, dictated a sincere observance of the 
country's irreparable loss. The coffin was placed upon a bier used 
in those days to carry the dead, and a heavy pall thrown over the 
whole, upon which were strewn flowers aud evergreens by the 
immense throng of country-folk who assembled to assist in the cere- 
monies. While General .James Dana and Capt. John Redington 
undoubtedly were the only ones that were immediately under Wash- 
ington's command among those that assembled for the occasion, 
yet hundreds of the plain sturdy sons of the soil and workshops 
of old Schoharie, whose daily lives had been vicissitudes of danger 
and privation in the cause of Freedom, felt the loss and united in 
mingling their tears, and made the occasion solemn and imposing. 

" Capt. Redington was instrumental in the building of the Re- 
formed Church at Lawyersville in 1800, and was an active and con- 
sistent member. Whatever position he occu^ned, he proved him- 
self a practical, energetic and thorough business man aud useful 
citizen."t 

He died 30 April, 1830, and lies buried in the quiet church yard 
at Lawyersville, within a few feet of his old friend and comrade in 

• Connecticut Men in the lievolution. 

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arms, Gen. James Dana. His epitaph reads : " A Revolutionary 
veteran; an enterprising settler of the County, of distinguished 
public spirit, an honest man." 

He married (1), at Ashford, Conn., 5 Dec, 1782, Miriam, daugh- 
ter of Edward Watkins of Asliford, born 26 Feb., 1753, died 7 Aug., 
1811, and by this marriage had no issue. He married (2), 5 Dec, 
1811, Laura, daughter of Elisha Smith and Mary (Watkins) Wales, 
born 28 June, 1787, died at Lawyersville, 22 July, ]868. Fifteen 
years after Captain Eediugton's decease, his widow married (2), 
20 March, 1845, Judge Jedediah Miller of Lawyersville, who died 
10 June, 1861. 

Children by second wife : 
i. MiRiAiM Clarissa^ b. 8 Oct., 1812 ; d. at Lawyersville, 23 Feb., 1864 ; 
m. 17 May, 1834, as first wife, James F. Blodgett of Lawyersville, 
Syracuse and Albany. Issue: 1. Charles Bufus,^ b. 16 Feb., 
1835; d. 16 Feb., 1839. 2. Helen Frances, b. 19 Oct., 1838; d. 
at Los Angeles, Cal., 11 Dec, 1906; m. Ward Wells of Glovers- 
ville, N. Y. ; their daughter, Miriam^ Redington Wells, m. Wil- 
liam F. Montgomery, and their son, Charles Blodgett* Wells, m. 
Kate, dau. of Ira More of San Francisco, and is a leading sugar 
planter and manufacturer of Maui, Hawaii Islands, 
ii. John, b. 17 Sept., 1814; d. 29 Mar., 1816. 

17. iii. John Wales, b. 24 Nov., 1816; d. Dec, 1892; ra. Eunice Corinthia 

Bellamy. 

18. iv. Joseph Alexander, b. 4 June, 1818; d. 11 May, 1894; m. Chloe 

Lewis. 

V. Cornelia Eliza, b. 27 Oct., 1820; d. 15 June, 1886: m. Abraham 
Sbutts of Lawyei'sville ; no issue. 

vi. Elisha Smith, b. 18 Jan., 1823; d. 16 July, 1825. 

vii. Thomas Havnes, b. 29 Apr., 1825; d. unmarried, 24 Mar., 1855. 

viii. Julia M., b. 11 Jan., 1827; d. 29 July, 1856:, m. at Cleveland, Ohio, 
17 Apr., 1855, Simeon 0. Edison, uncle of the famous electrician ; 
no issue. 

ix. Laura Almira, b. 7 Feb., 1830; m. 3 Oct., 1854, John Calhoun Fer- 
guson, who d. 3 Aug., 1869; no issue. 

15. Jacob^ Redington (Nathaniel,'^ Jacob,' Dea. Daniel,^ John}) was born 
at Tolland, Conn., 4 July 1759, and resided, after his father's death, 
at Richmond, Mass. During the Revolution, he served under a 
number of enlistments, as follows : Private, Capt. Gideon King's 
Company, 17th Regt., Albany County, N. Y., militia, 1779 ;* private, 
7th Regt., Mass. Line, July 13, 1780 ; private, 6th Regt., Mass. 
Line; transferred to 10th Mass. Line, transferred to 2d Mass. Line, 
1781-1783.t After the war, he settled in Vergennes, Vt., where 
he held many town offices, and was a member of the first Common 

* New York in the Revolution. 

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Council of its first city government, instituted in 1794. He removed 
to St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1800, and was one of the founders 
of the town of Waddington, where he died, 22 Aug., 1843. 

He married, 17 Nov., 1785, Eunice, daughter of Ashael King 
of New Lebanon, Columbia County, N. Y., who died at Wadding- 
ton, 15 Oct., 1847, aged 79 years. 

Children : 

i. Sarah, ^ b. 4 Jan., 1787; d. at "Waddington, in 1876. 

ii. N.VNCY, b. 19 Jan., 1789; d. 27 Mar., 1811. 

iii. Mary, b. 7 Mar., 1791; d. 5 July, 1819; m. Isaac Dearborn, 

iv. George, d. young. 

V. Jacob Smith, b. 15 June, 1795 ; d. at Potsdam, N. Y., 11 Feb., 1834. 

vi. Emeline, b. 17 June, 1797; m. Jacob Seeley; lived in Ogdensburgh, 
N. Y. 

19. vii. George, b. 23 Nov., 1798; d. 15 Sept., 1850; m. (1) Amoretta Stone; 

m. (2) Lorai "Williams Sheldon. 

20. viii. John Harris, b. 23 Sept., 1801; d. at Moscow, N. Y., in 1841; m 

Emily Washburn. 
ix. Lyjian King, b. 22 Nov., 1803 ; d. at Syracuse, N. Y. 
X. JuLiETT, b. 14 Aug., 1805 ; d. 3 Sept., 1808. 
xi. Nathaniel A., b. 24 Oct., 1807; d. in California. 

21. xii. Jajmes, b. 27 June, 1810; d. 12 Oct., 1891; m. Charlotte Y. Colfax, 
xiii. Nancy Juliette, b. 8 Feb., 1813; d. 5 Feb., 1814. 

16. Nathaniel^ Redington (EHphalet,^ Jacoh^ Dea. Daniel,'^ John^), 
born at Tolland, 18 Oct., 1762, resided most of his life at Richmond, 
where he died, 4 Oct., 1839. His will directed that his wife should 
have a life interest in his estate, with remainder to his children and 
their heirs.* 

He married (1) at Richmond, 28 Dec, 1783, Polly Griswold; 
and married (2), in 1830, Temperance Gates. 

Children all by first wife, and Ijorn at Richmond : 

i. LucY,« b. 21 Aug., 1784 ; m. Swift. 

ii. Harry, b. 3 Apr., 1786; removed to Ohio. 

iii. Polly, b. 3 Nov., 1787; m. Elias "Walker; removed to Ithaca, N. Y. 

iv. Clarissa, b. 7 Mar., 1791 ; d. 16 Apr., 18G9 ; m. 23 July, 1815, Addison 

Dewey, b. 3 May, 1793, d. 19 May, 1835.t 
V. Phebe, b. Mar., 1793 ; m. in 1821, Luther Salmon; had issue. 
vi. Kingsbury, b. 4 Feb., 1795. 
vii. Nathaniel, b. 9 Jan., 1798 ; d. after 9 June, 1840 ; m. . Issue : 

1. Alfred.'' 2. 3Iary. 3. Myra. 4. Polly. 5. Henry H. 6. Teresa, 

m. Joshua Simmons, 
viii. Lucius, b. 5 June, 1801; d. at Jamaica, L. I., 25 July, 1874; m. 2 

Sept., 1830, Julia Ann Jacques, b. 20 April, 1812, d. 17 April, 

1890. Issue: 1. Edward Jaques,^ b. at Jamaica, 21 July, 1831; 

* Berkshire County Probate Files, No. 6092. 
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d. 12 May, 1903 ; ra. 12 Sept., 1855, Typhemia T. Meeks. He was 
many years a resident of Bay Shore, Long Island ; a director in 
the South Side Banli ; a member of the Idle Hour and Carleton 
clubs, and a trustee of town lauds. He identified himself with 
the Republican party in the days of Fremont, and was the chair- 
man of the first Republican convention ever held in the old County 
of Queens, N. Y. His only children, Edward Kingsbury,^ and 
Emma L., widow of Gardiner S. Lockwood, survive him. 2. 
Julia A., b. 22 Feb., 1833; d. 11 Dec, 1878; m. Henry W. Chapin 
of Pittsfleld, Mass. 3. 3fary E., b. 24 Nov., 1834; m. Hiram H. 
Ryder of Flushing. 4. Frances, h. Q Dec, 1836; d. Nov., 1898; 
m. as second wife, Henry W. Chapin. 5. Lucius, b. 26 Aug., 1838 ; 
d. 10 Sept., 1839. 6. Sarah A., b. 7 July, 1841; m. Doremus M. 
Remsen of Port Chester, N. Y, 7. Louisa A., b. 5 Nov., 1843; m. 
William Wiswall of Port Chester, N. Y. 8. James M. J., b. 7 
Dec, 1849; d. 4 Jan., 1854. 

17. John Wales^ Redington ( Capt. John,^ Daniel,^ Jacob ^ Dea. Daniel,^ 

John^) was born at Lawyers ville, Schorarie County, N. Y., 24 Nov., 
1816, and died at Scranton, Pennsylvania, in Dec, 1892. He was 
for many years an esteemed citizen of Lawyersville, and actively 
identified with church and educational affairs. He removed from 
Lawyersville to Cleveland, Ohio, and from there to Norwich, 
Chenango County, N. Y. 

He married, 4 Jan., 1842, Eunice Corinthia Bellamy, who died 
at Norwich, 21 July, 1878. 

Children : 

i. Mary E.,t b. 8 Jan., 1843 ; d. 6 Apr., 1857. 

ii. Laura Augusta, b. 9 May, 1845; m. as second wife, Samuel I. 
Foote of Norwich, N. Y. Issue : Arthur Redington^ Foote, Vice- 
President of the Charleston, West Virginia, Land and Coal Com- 
pany; m. Emma, dau. of Dr. Burns of Scranton, Penn. 

iii. Julia Corinthia, b. 29 Jan., 1847; m. Girard Mead of Norwich. 

iv. John Jedidiah, b. 6 June, 1851 ; d. unmarried at San Francisco, 
19 Aug., 1885. 

18. Joseph Alexander^ Redington (Capt. John,^ Daniel,'^ Jacob,^ Dea. 

Daniel,''' John^) was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, 4 June, 
1818, died at Cleveland, Ohio, 11 May, 1894. In 1842 he estab- 
lished himself in business at Cleveland, as a ship-chandler merchant. 
He later became a ship owner, and among his interests in this line 
was the part ownership in the propeller " Manhattan," the first boat 
that plied the waters of both Lake Erie and Lake Superior. This 
was in the days previous to the construction of the Soo Canal, and the 
" Manhattan " was transported around the rapids in the St. Mary's 
River, a distance of half a mile overland, and then launched into 
Lake Superior. Mr. Redington was among the first to appreciate the 
value of the rich mining products of the Upper Lakes, and it is 



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said that it was partly through his efforts that Cleveland became 
the great distributing point for iron ore. In 1872 he disposed of 
his iron ore interest, and from that time devoted his time and 
resources to the vessel business until about one year before his 
death, when he sold his last boat, the schooner " Nellie Redington." 
Mr. Redington was one of the most widely known citizens on the 
west side of Cleveland. His home, at his death, was No. 210 Frank- 
lin Avenue, where he had resided for twenty-eight years, having 
lived on that Avenue for nearly half a century. He was a valued 
and influential member of the First Congregational Church, and 
took an active part in church and Sunday school work. 

He married, at Cleveland, 28 July, 1841, Chloe, daughter of 
Adam and Cynthia (Baker) Lewis, born at Hornellsville, Steuben 
County, New York, 15 June, 1821, and died at Laconia, New 
Hampshire, 12 Jan., 1905. 

Children : 
1. Levine Lodovick,^ b. 1 May, 1842 ; d. 26 July, 1843. 

22. ii. Cornelia Miranda, b. 7 Aug., 1846; m. William Thornton Carter. 

23. iii. Helen Eliza, b. 3 May, 1848; m. Col. Henry H. Adams. 

iv. Walter Joseph, b. at Cleveland, 23 Nov., 1857; m. 28 July, 1881, 
Clara B. Case of Cleveland ; resides at Redington, Northampton 
Co., Penn. ; has always been interested in and identified with the 
iron business; was for some years connected with the Columbus 
and Hocking Coal and Iron Company of Ohio, and is now Treas- 
urer of the Redington Steel Company ; is a member of the Country 
Club of Northampton County, Penn., the Pomfret Club of Easton, 
Penn., and of the Northampton Club of South Bethlehem, Penn. 
Issue: Laura Helen,^ b. 3 Apr., 1886; d. 13 Jan., 1898. 

V. Julia Mary, b. at Cleveland, 6 July, 1860; m. 12 Jan., 1882, John 
Brackett Moore, b. at Laconia, New Hampshire, 27 June, 1853, son 
of Jonathan Lovejoy Moore and Lucy J. Sanborn, and resides at 
Laconia. Mr. Moore was town clerk of Laconia in 1902, and 
upon its incorporation as a city served as its first city clerk, and 
as a member of city council. Issue : 1. Edith Bedington,^ b. at 
Chicago, 4 Mar., 1884. 2. Lydia Sargent, b. 29 July, 1890. 3. 
Bedington, b. 26 June, 1895. 

vi. Stella Josephine, b. 23 Aug., 1862; m. 17 June, 1884, Henry 
Haller Mitchell, b. at Mount Vernon, Ohio, 10 Aug., 1859, son of 
William and Catherine (Haller) Mitchell. After some experience 
in railroad service and construction work, Mr. Mitchell engaged 
in the iron and crushed stone business, and is now Secretary and 
Treasurer of the General Crushed Stone Company with ofiices at 
Bethlehem, a Director and Secretary of the Pluto Powder Com- 
pany of Bufl'alo, and President of the Redington Steel Company. 
He resides at Bethlehem, Penn., is a member of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, of the Northampton Club of South 
Bethlehem, and of the Country Club of Northampton County; the 
President of the Bethlehem Boys' Club, and a Vestryman of 
Trinity Church, Bethlehem. 



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19. George® Redington {Jacob^ Nathaniel,^ Jacob^ Dea. Daniel,'^ John^) 
was born at Vergennes, Vermont, 23 Nov., 1798, and died at Wad- 
diijgton. New York, 15 Sei^t., 1850. He was elected from Wadding- 
ton to the New York Assembly of 1841, and served three terms. 
He was also Justice of the Peace and Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas in and for St. Lawrence County, New York, and upon his 
retirement from the bench he devoted his energies to the lumber 
and real estate business. He married (1), 28 Nov., 1827, Amoretta 
Stone, who died 21 Feb., 1843; married (2), at New York city, 
18 Sept., 1844, Loraine Williams Sheldon, who died 14 Mar., 1849, 
daughter of Medad Sheldon by his wife Lucy Bass. Mrs. Reding- 
ton descended from Capt. Amasa Sheldon and Lieut. Obadiah Bass 
of the Revolution. 

Children of first marriage, all born at Waddington : 

i. Sarah A./ b. 9 Nov., 1829; d. 4 Mar., 1898 ; m. (1) Silas Clark of 

Madrid, N. Y. ; m. (2) Allan B. Phillips of Massena, N. Y. 
ii. Harriette C, b. 2 May, 1831; d. 18 Sept., 1898; m. (1) William 

C. Pierce of Madrid; (2) Charles Sheldon of Rutland, Vt. 
iii. Jane E., b. 27 May, 1833; d. 1 Mar., 1898; m. Charles E. Miner of 

Canton, N. Y. 
iv. George S., b. 19 May, 1834; d. 26 Sept., 1835. 
V. Anna M., b. 14 Dec, 1835; d. 2 Aug., 1904: m. James F. Pierce of 

Madrid. 
vi. Mary E., b. 2 Feb., 1839 ; m. Thomas "Wilson of Waddington. 
vii. Henry Vining, b. 24 Nov., 1840; m. Elizabeth Whaland; resides 

in Sidney, Nebraska. 

Childi'en by second marriage, born at Waddington : 
viii. John Jacob, b. 15 June, 1845; d. 21 Jan., 1847. 
ix. Charles Medad, twin of above; d. 17 Mar., 1846. 
24. X. Lyman Williams, b. 14 Mar., 1849; m. (1) Catherine R. Merrill; 
(2) Frances W. Sutton. 

20. Rev. John Harris® Redington (Jacob,^ Nathaniel* Jacob^ Dea. 
Daniel,''' John,^) was born at Vergennes, Vermont, 23 September, 
1801. He studied for the ministry at the Auburn Theological 
Seminary, New York, and was settled as pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church of Moscow, New York, where he died in 1841. He married 
Emily Washburn of Vermont, sister of the Rev. Asahel C. Wash- 
burn of Suffield, Connecticut, who pre-deceased him. 
Children born at Moscow : 

i. CoL. John Calvin^ Owen, b. 8 Aug., 1837; d. at Syracuse, N. Y., 
25 Oct., 1905; was graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., in 
1860 ; served in the Civil War from 1861 to 1863, entering as a pri- 
vate and mustered out Lieut. Colonel ; was in the battles of Bull 
Run, Antietam and Gettysburg, being in command of the whole 
division at the skirmish on Culps' Hill ; also in the battle of Chan- 
cellorsville. In later years he was a writer and publisher of pa- 



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triotic literature. He married 4 Aug., 1868, Emma I. Swanger, 
born Ogdensburg, N. Y., 15 July, 1849, daughter of George F. and 
Bertha (Foster) Swanger of Ogdensburg. Issue : 1. George 
Owen^ Redington, b. 30 Apr., 1871 ; educated at Syracuse Univer- 
sity 1890-1892; Yale Law School 1894, L.L. B., 1895 L.L. M. ; 
served in Spanish War in Troop A, New York Cavalry, U. S. 
Volunteers, through Porto Rico campaign ; senior member of the 
law firm of Redington and Berry, New York City. 2. Edioard 
John Bedington, b. 11 Sept., 1873; educated at Yale University, 
Class of 1894, A. B. ; and at Columbia University Law School, 
L.L. B. 1903 ; on the Faculty of Syracuse University 1894-1900 as 
Instructor of Latin ; now practitioner of law in New York City, 
and the editor of Re Brief. 3. Arthur Calvin Bedington, b. 1 
Mar., 1879; d. Ashville, N. C, 17 Feb., 1907; was graduated at 
Syracuse University, 1903. 4. Bertram Asahel Bedington, b. 21 
Feb., 1882; matriculated at Yale but did not graduate; now in the 
Civil Engineering Department of New York, 
ii. Emily, m. Rev. Giles Foster Montgomery; both were mission- 
aries in Turkey and died there. Issue : 1. George^ Bedington 
Montgomery^ born at Marash, Turkey, 17 June, 1870 ; was gradu- 
ated at Yale University, 1892; Law School 1894; studied divinity 
at Berlin University and at Yale; Ph. D. Yale 1901; ordained to 
the Congregational ministry in Sept., 1901 ; lecturer at Yale since 
1900; was special correspondent in Turkey for the London Daily 
Graphic, and war correspondent of the London Standard during 
the Grffico-Turkish war ; ra. at Wakefield, Mass., 23 June, 1902, 
Emil^ E. Emerson. 2. Mary Williams Montgomery^ b. at Marash, 
Turkey, 21 Nov., 1874; was graduated Wellesley College, 1896; 
Ph.D. Berlin, 1901. 

21. James® Redington, Esq. {Jacoh,^ Nathaniel* Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel,^ 
John}) was born at Waddingtou, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., 27 
June, 1810, and died there, 12 Oct., 1891. He studied law and 
was admitted to practice in his profession in 1831. On 30 Nov., 
1840, he was appointed by Gov. AA^illiam H. Seward, Surrogate of 
St. Lawrence County, and was elected to the same oflfice in 1856. 

" Mr. Redington was first a Whig, and afterward a Republican 
from the organization of that party. With the blood of the Revo- 
lutionary fathers in his veins, and accustomed to hear from infancy 
the story of the sufferings and heroism with which our liberties 
were obtained ; the outbreak of the Rebellion found him a most 
ardent defender of the Union. To his influence is largely due the 
honorable war record of the town of Waddingtou. In 1861 he was 
elected to the Assembly, and re-elected for four successive terms, 
serving on important committees, and was one of the foremost in the 
support of the Union. At the death of President Lincoln, he received 
the honorable appointment of delivering the memorial address, which 
was a masterpiece of oratory. 



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" Returning from the Assembly he was appointed American Con- 
sul at Morrisburg, Ont., the year the Consulate was created, and 
held the office until the latter part of Cleveland's administration. 

'' Relieved of the burdens of public office, he returned to his home 
and friends. But his active mind could not consent to be idle. In 
spite of the burden of years and the progress of insidious disease, 
he turned his attention to literary work, and for the greater part of 
a year scarcely a day failed to find him at his office desk. Several 
valuable papers on current and historical subjects he read at the 
village Literary Society, in which he took a deep interest. But the 
most valuable paper there prepared was a history of the First 
Presbyterian Church, of which he had been a most prominent and 
influential member and officer for more than half a century. Mr. 
Redington professed his faith in Christ in his early manhood and 
united with what was then the First Congregational Church, 1832. 
The Church had been but four years organized, and several of the 
original thirteen had died or returned to their native Vermont. 
But Mr. Redington's ever hopeful zealous spirit would not let the 
organization die. He was ready for every emergency. In the in- 
tervals of the brief pastorates he preached the gospel on Sunday as 
powerfully as he expounded the law on Monday ; pleading the 
cause of God and the interest of souls as eloquently as for his client 
at the bar. At various times he has filled every office and position 
pertaining to a church ; having been its trustee and treasurer, choris- 
ter and sexton, Sunday school superintendent and teacher, clerk, 
elder, pastor, and Commissioner to the General Assembly. For 
more than forty years the records of the Church were kept by his 
hands. 

" When the Church had grown to its present strength he was 
naturally held in the profoundest veneration by all. 

*' Mr. Redington was intensely positive in his nature. None 
could love the good more tenderly nor hate the evil more perfectly. 
He always had the courage of his convictions. However much 
people might be compelled to differ with him in his views, none 
could question the sincerity of his conviction or purity of his motives. 
He needs no monument. The moral and religious life of the com- 
munity shall perpetuate the memory of his life and works."* 

He married in 1835, Charlotte Y. Colfax of New London, Conn. 

Children, all born in Waddington : 
i. Mary Chipman. 
ii. Frances Ann. 
iii. Sarah Elizabeth. 
iv. James King. 
v. George Nathaniel. 

♦ Obituary notice. 



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22. Cornelia Miranda'' Redington {Joseph Alexander,^ Capt. John^ 
Daniel,^ Jacob^ Dea. Daniel^ Jokn^) was born at Arlingtou, Ver- 
mont, 7 Aug., 1846, and married at Cleveland, Ohio, 11 Nov., 1868, 
William Thornton Carter, born at Pengilly, Cornwall, England, 
23 Aug., 1827, died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 Feb., 1893. 
Pie was a son of William and Mary (Thomas) Carter of Breage, 
Cornwall, where the Carter family has been resident for many 
generations. In 1850, when a young man of twenty years, Mr. 
Carter came to the United States, and joined his uncles, John and 
Richard Carter, who were among the pioneer anthracite coal miners 
at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. He soon became interested in the same 
business, and in 1S61 purchased the Colleraine Collieries near 
Beaver Meadow, Pennsylvania. These he greatly enlarged and 
developed, and for thirty years he was recognized as one of the 
most extensive and successful individual coal operators in America. 
In 1867 he pm'chased a large tract of land on the Lehigh Valley 
Railroad below Bethlehem, known as the Lime Ridge, and there 
established the town of Redington, erecting large blast furnaces and 
machine and car shops, all of which were kept in operation for more 
than twenty-five years, in spite of the discouragements incident to 
depression in trade and the suspension of mining and manufacturing 
operations in that region at various times. He later became in- 
terested in developing and Of)erating street railways, especially the 
Ridge Avenue system of Philadelphia, and he was one of the original 
subscribers to the United Gas and ImiDrovement Company of that 
city, in which he was a director. He owned a controlling interest 
in the First National Bank of Tamaqua, at which point were ex- 
tensive machine shops which he also controlled, and he was one of 
the projectors and financial supporters of the construction of the 
Poughkeepsie Bridge over the Hudson River and its connecting rail- 
roads, and was closely identified with many financial institutions in 
Philadelphia. 

" Mr. Carter was a man of remarkable foresight and keen judg- 
ment, and throughout his entire business career was governed by 

the strictest integrity and persistency of purpose He was 

a man of broad culture, possessed a charming personality, and was 
an unusually interesting conversationalist."* 

From 1855 until his death he resided in Philadelphia, where he 
was a trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church, a member of the 
Pennsylvania Historical and Genealogical societies, the Franklin 
Institute, the Rittenhouse, Union League, and Art clubs, and of 
other organizations. In politics he was a Republican, and an ardent 
advocate of protective trade i^riuciples and policies. 

* Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Lehigh 
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Mr. Carter was twice married ; first, in 1854, to Miss Jewell, who 
was a native of England, and who died in 1864, leaving two children, 
Mrs. T. Chester Walbridge of Germantown, Philadelphia, and 
Charles John Jewell Carter of Redington, Pennsylvania. His 
second wife, Mrs. Cornelia M. Redington Carter, resides at No. 
2116 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. In the autumn of 1898 she 
founded, as a memorial to her husband, the William T. Carter 
Junior Republic, at Redington, in the beautiful valley of the Lehigh, 
which is entirely supported by her. The site was selected by Mrs. 
Carter, because it was for many years the field of her husband's 
great enterprise. Here he built and operated a large iron industry, 
and named the little hamlet after his wife. A tender sentiment 
consequently prompted the placing of the memorial in this locality. 

The Carter Junior Republic occupies a fruit and grain farm of 
one hundred and fourteen acres, and was established primarily for 
the transformation of incorrigible children. It aims, under super- 
vision, to grant to the children under its care, limited privileges of 
self government ; to govern children through themselves ; to de- 
velope the whole being of the child; to learn through doing; to 
place responsibility on the child and help him meet it successfully ; 
to train his hand, strengthen his mind and develope his spiritual 
nature, and after his retirement from the Republic to keep in con- 
stant and strengthening touch with him. The educational oppor- 
tunities include both academic and manual training ; the former 
range from primary work through college preparation, and the latter 
affords competent instruction in farming and carpentering.* As 
an educational and social exjjeriment in practical philanthropy it 
has achieved a complete success. 

Mrs. Carter is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Colo- 
nial Dames of America, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution, the Acorn and Sedgley clubs, and the 
Pennsylvania Historical and Genealogical societies, and of other 
social and philanthropic organizations. 

Children : 

25. i. Helen Redington,^ b. 9 Oct., 1870; m, Joseph Leidy, M.D. 

2G. ii. William Ernst, b. 19 June, 1875; m. Lucile Stewart Folk. 

iii. Grace Alice, b. 27 June, 1876; d. 18 Aug., 1876. 

27. iv. Alice, b. 15 July, 1878 ; m. William Carter Dickerman. 

23. Helen Eliza'^ Redington {Joseph Alexander,^ Capt. Jolin^ Daniel,^ 
Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel,^ John^) was born at Cleveland, Ohio, 3 May, 
1848, and married at Cleveland, 26 Mar., 1867, Col Henry Herschel 
Adams, born at Collamer, Ohio, 9 July, 1844, and died at Green- 
wich, Connecticut, 6 May, 1906, son of Lowell L. Adams, a veteran 

* Report of the William T. Carter Junior Republic, 1899-1904. 



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of the war of 1812, and grandson of Benoni Adams, a Revolu- 
tionary soldier. His earliest American ancestor on the paternal 
side was Henry Adams, a founder of Braintree, Mass., and the for- 
bear of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams. Col. Adams 
was educated at Shaw Academy, Cleveland, and left school to enter 
the Union army in the Civil War, serving in the 125th Ohio Volun- 
teers. In the battle of Franklin, 9 Mar., 1863, he valiantly led the 
charge across a river and dislodged the enemy's force, and at Chicka- 
mauga, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church and Kenesaw 
Mountain, he again did valiant service. While in charge of courier 
service between the lines he was captured by Gen. Forrest at Athens, 
Alabama, on 20 Sept., 1864, and was three months in Cahaba 
prison. After his exchange he again took active part in the contest, 
and was recommended for a medal of honor by Gen. Oliver Otis 
Howard, for gallantry on the field. 

After the war, Colonel Adams engaged in the iron business at 
Cleveland, and became one of the leading iron merchants and ship 
owners of the middle West. In 1882 he removed to New York, 
where he continued in the iron business until his death. In 1890 
he became president of the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron 
Company, and in June, 1891, he became head of the Henry H. 
Adams Iron Company, and later president of the Colonial Iron 
Company of Pennsylvania, which position he held at his death. 

Col. Adams was active in military and patriotic societies, being a 
member of Lafayette Post, G. A. R., of New York, and the delegate 
of the Post to decorate Lafayette's tomb in Paris on Decoration 
Day, 1893. He was one of the promoters of the plan to teach 
patriotism by placing the flag over the public school buildings, and 
gave away to scholars thousands of small silk flags. He was vice- 
president of the Patriotic League of America, a member of the 
Army and Navy clubs of New York and Hartford, the New York 
societies of Sons of the Revolution and of Colonial Wars. He was 
also a member of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, of the 
National Committee of One Hundred to build the University of the 
United States at Washington, and a trustee of the Lincoln Memorial 
University in Tennessee. 

" A hero in war, a patriot in peace, he lived a life of benefit to 
to many, and the influence of his benefactions must live for many 
years after him."* 

He was buried with military honors in Putnam Cemetery, Green- 
wich, Connecticut, of which town he had been a resident for many 
years. 

* Obituary in Greenwicli Graphic, 12 May, 1906. 



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]VIr8. Adams is a trustee of the Greenwich Exchange for Women's 
"Work ; is associated with the Household Economics of New York 
City, and the founder, in 1897, of the Putnam Hill Chapter of the 
Daughters of the American Eevolution of Greenwich, of which she 
has ever since been the Regent. Of the work and aims of this 
latter organization. Col. Adams had been a zealous promoter, and 
at a meeting of the Chapter officers, hastily summoned upon his 
decease by the Vice-Regent, the following resolutions were adopted 
and sent by messenger to the bereaved family : 

Whereas, The long conflict being ended, the warfare accom- 
plished, the great victory won, it has pleased our Great Commander 
to promote into the upper ranks, his brave soldier, Col. Henry 
Herschel Adams, our beloved friend, and co-laborer, therefore be it 

Resolved, That we of the Putnam Hill Chapter of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution, this eighth day of May, 1906, do ex- 
press to his family, a unity in the bond of sorrow and a deep sense 
that his " gain " has become our irretrievable loss, and be it also 

Resolved, That we do as a Chapter, express to his wife, our be- 
loved Regent, and to his family, our heartfelt sympathy, and the 
hope that the glory from afar may shine into the hearts sore with 
affliction, that the noble soul gone on may still be the inspiration 
to endeavor and to accomplish, and be it also 

Resolved, That our prayers for them shall be the courage of the 
God of Battles and the abiding courage of the Prince of Peace, and 
finally be it 

Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be placed upon the 
minutes of our Order, and that a copy be sent to Mrs. Adams and 
her family. 

By order of the officers of the Putnam Hill Chapter, D. A. R. 

Kate L. Seymour, 

Corresponding Secretary. 
Children : 

Nellie Redington,' b. 29 Apr., 1869 ; m. John David Barrett. 
IIexry Herschel, b. 20 June, 1873; m. Louise Lyman. 
Laura Grace, b. at Cleveland, 4 Sept., 1875; d. 10 Sept., 1876. 
Mabel Stella, b. 10 Nov., 1877; m. Albert B. Ashworth. 
Lowell Leonard, b. at Greenwich, 10 Feb., 1892 ; d. the same day. 

24. Ltma'n Williams Redington'' Esq. {George^ Esq., Jacoh,^ Na- 
thaniel,* Jacob,^ Deacon Daniel,'^ John^) was born at Waddington, 
14 March, 1849, He fitted for college at Williston Academy, en- 
tered Yale College, and afterwards attended the law school of Co- 
lumbia University. After his admission to the bar and some travel 
in Europe he located, in 1875, in Rockland, Vermont, the home of 
his maternal ancestors, when he was shortly elected Prosecutor of 



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the Pleas, member of the Vermont Legislature ; Democratic nomi- 
nee for Speaker in 1878, and a delegate-at-large for Vermont to the 
Democratic National Convention in 1880 and in 1884; the Demo- 
cratic nominee for Congress in 1882, and the Democratic candi- 
date for Governor in 1884. During the Legislature of 1878, he 
was the author of the '• Rediugtou bill," so-called, for a local option 
law to apply to the liquor traffic, which was one of the best drawn 
and carefully considered measures ever presented to the Vermont 
Legislature. 

In 1889 he removed to New York City, where he has since been 
actively engaged in the practice of the law, and in State and Muni- 
cipal politics. In 1898 and 1899 he was a member of the New 
York Legislature. Mr. Redington is a powerful speaker, an inde- 
pendent and progressive worker, and a writer of ability. 

He married (1), 6 October, 1875, Catherine Russell Merrill, and 
(2) 6 October, 1900, Frances Sutton. 

Children by first wife : 

i. Mary Pattersox, b. 29 June, 1S7G; m. 12 June, 1900, Charles 

Thurber Arrighi. 
ii. Thomas Gregory, b. 21 Dec, 1880. 
iii. Paul Merrill, b. 10 July, 1886. 

25. Helen Reden'gton^ Carter ( Cornelia 21.,'' Joseph Alexander,^ Capt. 
John,^ Daniel,* Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel^ John^) was born at Phila- 
delphia, 9 October, 1870, and married there, 4 Oct. 1893, Joseph 
Leidy, M. D., born at Philadelphia, 11 April, 1866; son of Dr. 
PhUip Leidy, by his wife Penelope Fontaine-^^Iaury Polk, and ne- 
phew of the eminent scientist, Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL.D. Dr. 
Leidy was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania A. B., in 
1884, and M.D., in 1887, receiving the degree of A.M., in 1889. 
L^pon completing his medical studies there, he became resident phy- 
Biciau at the hospital of that University, and later served in such 
capacity in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, and at the 
Pennsylvania General Hospital. He has also served as assistant- 
surgeon in the Genito-Urinary Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, as assistant demonstrator of Pathological Anatomy 
and Morbid Histology, and assistant demonstrator of Anatomy at 
the same institution, and in other medical positions in various insti- 
tutions. In 1889 he was commissioned assistant-suriieon of the 
Third Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania. He was the 
official delegate of the United States to the International Congress of 
Hygiene and Demographic in 1900, and was also for some years a dele- 
gate to the International Medical Congress. He officially represented 
the United States Government as Juror on Hygiene to the Paris 




Fl'RNITVKE WHICH BELONGED TO CaPTAIN ReDINGTON (Xo. I4) 
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Exposition in 1900, and in recognition of his service thereat, re- 
ceived from the Government of France the decoration of Officer 
r Instruction Publique. 

Dr. Leidy is the author of various papers in scientific and literary 
journals, and is a Fellow of the College of Pliysicians, and the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelpliia, and a member of 
numerous other medical and scientific societies. He is also a mem- 
ber of the American Huguenotic Society, the Historical and Colonial 
societies of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania societies of Colonial 
Wars, Sons of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and Loyal Legion, 
and of the Philadelphia and Union League clubs. 

Mrs. Leidy is a member of the Acorn, Sedgeley and Country 
clubs of Philadelphia. 

Children of Dr. Joseph and Helen Redington (Carter) Leidy : 

i. Cornelia Carter Leidy, b. at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, 

18 Aug., 1895. 
ii. Philip Ludwell Leidy, b. at Philadelphia, 29 Jan., 1897. 
iii. Carter Randolph Leidy, b. at Philadelphia, 7 Jan., 1902. 

26. William Ernest^ Carter ( Cornelia M.,^ Joseph Alexander,^ Capt. 

John^ Daniel,^ Jacob,^ Deacon Daniel,^ Johi^) was born at Paris, 
France, 19 June, 1875, and was educated at private schools and at 
the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by foreign travel. 
He is an ardent sportsman, is widely known in the social circles of 
England and America, and is a member of the Pennsylvania Society 
Sons of the Revolution, of the Radnor Hunt, Philadelphia Coun- 
try and St. Anthony clubs. 

He married at Baltimore, Maryland, 29 January, 1896, Lucile 
Stewart Polk, born in Baltimore, 8 October, 1875, daughter of 
William Stewart and Louise (Anderson) Polk of Tennessee. 

Children of William Ernest and Lucile (Polk) Carter: 

i. Lucile Polk Carter, b. at Philadelphia, 20 October, 1897. 
ii. William Thornton Carter 2d, b. at Narragansett Pier, 14 Sep- 
tember, 1900. 

27. Alice^ Carter ( Cornelia M.^ Joseph Alexander^ Capt. John,^ 

Daniel* Jacoh^ Deacon Daniel^' John^) was born at Germantown, 
Philadelphia, 15 July, 1878, and was graduated A. B. from Bryn 
Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1899. Almost immediately Miss 
Carter became interested in the betterment of the Kindergarten 
methods then in operation in Philadelphia, and in furtherance there- 
of organized upon her own responsibility a Training School for 
Kindergartners, with Miss Caroline M. C. Hart, a former director 
of the training school of the Baltimore Kindergarten Association, 
in charge, supplemented by an advisory committee of recognized 
educational authorities — Dr. William T. Harris, ex-United States 



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Commissioner of Education, Washington ; Miss Susan G. Blow, 
New York; Mr. Hamilton Wriorht Mabie, New York; Dr. Ed- 
ward Brooks, then superintendent of the public schools in Phila- 
delphia ; Mrs. Joseph P. Mumford, and Mr. "William W. Justice, 
also of Philadelphia, and the patronage of a large number of public 
spirited men and women of Pliiiadelphia. The success of the school 
is assured, and its graduates and jDupils are already scattered through- 
out the land. 

JNIiss Carter married at Rugby, Dunchurch, England, 19 June, 
1905, her cousin, William Carter Dickerman, born at Bethlehem, 
Pennsylvania, 12 December, 1874, son of the Hon. Charles Heber 
Dickerman, by his wife Joy Ivy Carter. Mr. Dickerman took a 
preparatory course at the William Penn Charter School, Philadel- 
phia, and was graduated M. E. from Lehigh University, Pennsyl- 
vania, in 1896, and the following year became connected with the 
Milton Car Works, Milton, Pennsylvania. Upon the formation of 
the American Car and Foundry Company he was made assistant 
district manager for Milton district, sales agent in 1900, Third Vice 
President in 1905, and Vice President in 1907. 

Mr. Dickerman is a Democrat in politics, a director of the First 
National Bank of Milton, a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, the Delta Phi Fraternity, the New York 
Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Railroad, University, City, 
Engineers, and Lawyers' clubs of New York, the Richmond 
County Country Club of New York, and the University Club of 
Philadelphia. He enlisted 19 May, 1897, in Company C, 12th 
Regiment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and was ap- 
pointed battalion adjutant in 1899 and first lieutenant in 1901. 

Child of William Carter and Alice (Carter) Dickerman: 

i. William Carter Dickerman, Jr., b. at New York City, 2 Febru- 
ary, 1907. 

Nellie Redington^ Adams {Helen Eliza,'' Joseph Alexander,^ Oapt. 
John" Daniel* Jacob,^ Deacon Daniel,'' John^) was born at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, 29 April, 1869, and married at New York City 28 
January, 1891, John David Barrett, born at West New Brighton, 
Staten Island, 17 August, 1853, son of John Thorndike Barrett, by 
his wife Alice Tinan. 

l\Ir. Barrett's active business career began in very early life. He 
became a member of the Insurance firm of Johnson and Higgins, 
New York, and later president of a corporation of the same name ; 
was also a member of the Underwriting firm of Higgins, Cox and 
Barrett, and Underwriter at United States Lloyds, Standard Marine 



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Insurance of Liverpool, the Indemnity Insurance Company of Lon- 
don, and the Reliance Insurance Company of Liverpool. He is a 
director of the Columbia Trust Company, Johnson and Iliggins 
and the United States Lloyds, a trustee of the Sheltering Arms, a 
member of the Chamber of Commerce, Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, Down Town Association, Century and Lawyers' clubs of New 
York, and also of the New York, Atlantic, Seawankaha and In- 
dian Harbor Yacht clubs. 

Children of John David and Nellie Redington (Adams) Barrett : 

i. Helen Adams' Barrett, b. New York City, 15 April, 1897. 
ii. John David Barrett, Jr., b. New York City, 8 Dec, 1903. 
lii. Redington Barrett, b. Greenwich, Conn., 28 April, 1905. 

29. Captain Henry Herschel^ Adams, Jr. {Helen Eliza,'' Joseph 

Alexander,^ Capt. John^ Daniel,^ Jacob^ Deacon Daniel,' John}) 
was born at Cleveland, Ohio, 20 June, 1873, and matriculated at 
Yale University in the Class of 1895. On 2 May, 1898, he entered 
the United States Volunteer service in the war with Spain, as First 
Lieutenant, Company D, 14th New York Volunteer Infantry ; was 
appointed Regimental Adjutant 21 July, 1898 ; promoted Captain, 
Company Iv, on 7 September, and appointed Special Aid on the 
Staff of Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, Commandine the 
United States Army, 9 September, 1898. 

Captain Adams is President of the Colonial Iron Company of 
Pennsylvania, and of the Old Stirling Iron and Mining Company 
of New York, and sole member of the firm of Henry H. Adams 
and Company, engaged in the iron business in New York. He is 
also a member of the New York Society of Colonial Wars, and of 
the Lotus and various other New York clubs. 

He married at Tarry town. New York, 27 November, 1900, 
Louise Lyman, born 27 July, 1874, daughter of George C. Lyman 
of Brockport, New York, by his wife Corilla C. Weed of Blooming- 
ton, Illinois. 

Children of Capt. Henry H. and Louise (Lyman) Adams: 

i. Mary Helen Adams, b. 25 Sept., 1901. 
ii. Louise Lyman Adams, b. 29 Sept., 1904. 
iii. Catherine C. Adams, b. 28 Feb., 1907. 

30. Mabel Stella^ Adams {Helen Eliza,'' Joseph Alexander,^ Capt, 

John,^ Daniel,^ Jacoh,^ Deacon Danielj^ John^) was born at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, 10 November, 1877, and married in New York City, 17 
April, 1900, Albert Blackhurst Ashforth, born in New York City, 
7 December, 1873, son of George Ashforth, by his wife Louise J. 
Blackhurst of New York. 

At the age of twenty-one Mr. Ashforth became a partner in the 
Real Estate firm of Ashforth and Duryee, which five years later he 



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continued under his o^ti name. He is a trustee of the North River 
Saviugs Bank and a director in many Real Estate corjjorations. He 
is a member of the Automobile Club of America, the Garden City 
Golf Club of Long Island, the Apawamis Golf Club of Rye, the 
Underwriters and Seventh Regiment Veteran clubs of New York. 

Children of Albert Blackhurst and Mabel Stella (Adams) Ash- 
forth : 

i. Henry Adams Ashforth, b. 7 Dec, 1901. 

ii. Albert Blackhurst Ashforth, Jr., b. 22 Feb., 1905. 

iii. George Ashforth, b. 25 Nov., 1906. 



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NathanieP Wales m. (1) . William Blake m. Mrs. Agnes Bond. 

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NathanieP Wales, Esq., m. (1) Susanna Blake. 



Ebenezer^ Wales, Esq., m. (1) Esther Smith. 



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Captam Elisha® Wales m. Mary Abbe. 



Elisha'' Smith Wales m. Mary Watkins. 
Captain John* Redington m. (2) Laura* Wales. 



Joseph^ Alexander Redington m. Chloe Lewis. 
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Cornelia^" Miranda Redington m. William Thornton Carter. 

Helen Eliza Redington m. Henry Herschel Adams. 

Walter Joseph Redington m. Clara B. Case. 

Julia Mary Redington m. John Brackett Moore. 

Stella Josephine Redington m. Henry Haller Mitchell. 







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SOME NOTES ON THE WALES FAMILY. 



In the West Riding of Yorkshire, midway between London and Edin- 
burgh, on the river Ayre, lies the quaint and interesting viUage of Idle in 
the parish of Calverly. It is in the heart of one of the great industrial 
centers of England ; Bradford, the great seat of the worsted trade, is four 
miles to the south, while Leeds, the principal market of woolen manufac- 
ture, is some eight miles south-east. Of considerable antiquity and prob- 
ably the site of a Roman camp. Idle is perched on a steep hillside com- 
manding a view of Upper and Lower Airedale and of the great heather- 
clad moorlands that stretch away in the distance to where the land drops sud- 
denly to the banks of the Nidd. The village is celebrated in Yorkshire for 
its stone quarries and the sturdy character of its inhabitants, and even now, 
with a population approximating twenty thousand, still retains much of the 
appearance of an old world hamlet, while the folk who move about its 
streets and in and out of its four-square houses of stone, bear themselves 
with the dignity of true dalesmen. There it was, in the midst of scenes 
old in story, that Nathaniel Wales, the founder of the American family 
of his surname, was born. There he lived the years of his youth and 
earlier manhood, and there, near by at the parish church of St. Wilfred, 
Calverly, his children were baptized from the font where he himself was 
made a member of the church militant. 

John Wales, father of the American colonist, had no inconsiderable land 
holdings in the manor of Idle at the survey of 1584, his properties being 
therein thus described : " John Wales holdeth there at the will of the Lord 
one messuage or tenement, one barn and other buildings, with one croft 
adjoining containing 3 roods 6 perches. And one ox gang of land and 
meadow to the same belonging in the fields there contained in the several 
parcels following, viz. : One close of meadow called the Pike, containing 
2 acres 1 rood. One close of arable land called nelher Leas, containing 1 
acre 1 rood and a quarter. One close of arable laud, meadow land, called 
Wynne Kowes, containing 1 acre 3 roods and a half. One close called 
West Field Close, containing 1 acre 1 perches. One parcel of barren 
ground called Sommerlaries, containing 1 acre 3 roods. One close of arable 
and wood ground, called the High Field containing 3 acres 3 roods and a 
half and a quarter. One close of arable and wood ground, called Milne 
Close, containing 1 acre 1 rood and a haK and a quarter. One close of 



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pasture and wood called Foxe Stubbing, contaiuing 2 acres and half a rood. 
One other close, called also Stubbing, containing 5 acres. And one close 
called Oldfield, containing 1 acre, 2 roods, with common of pasture to the 
same belonging and renteth per annum at the Feasts aforesaid.* 

The earliest mention of .John Wales is, perhaps, in the will of John 
Ilobsou of Idle, under which he was a beneficiary, 13 January, 1577, and 
it has been conjectured that his first wife, Margaret, was a daughter of the 
testator. Sheltered in his dale he lived the uneventful fai-ming life of the 
Elizabethan period, strengthened and enriched by his solicitude for the 
intellectual advancement of his children ; and something of the joys and 
griefs of his span of years is written on tlie registers of the parish church 
of Calverly, whose bells had called proud worshippers to the Roman mass 
and whose walls were later to house the soldiers of the Commonwealth. 
But he died, and perchance happily so, before the stirring events which 
were to cloud the sunset years of his second son had begun to cast even 
their shadow. Yet not before he had seen that son — Elkanah Wales — 
terminate his clerical studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609, and 
become settled in the curacy of Pudsey in his native parish. And then 
his thoughts turned toward that event for which all life is but the prepar- 
ation, and he gave expression to his last will, 4 September, 1610, and shortly 
afterward died, as the instrument was proved 26 November following. Ac- 
cording to the statement of the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, first minister of 
Rowley, Massachusetts, published in Turner's History of Idle, this docu- 
ment was written by the son Elkanah, to whose care his four youngest 
brothers were partially recommended, and Mr. Rogers further testified to 
his execution of the trust reposed in him as being " no less than wonder- 
ful," since, to his brothers were later added the five orphaned children of 
his brother Samuel, three of whom he educated at the Universities. The 
will of John Wales reads as follows : " In the name of God Amen Sep- 
tember 4th Anno Dni 1610 I John Wailes of Idle in the pish of Calvley 
in the Countie of Yorke being sicke of bodie but of good and pfect mem- 
orie thankes be given to God in Jesus Christ do ordeyne and make this my 
last Will and Testament in mann and forme following. Imprimis. I give 
and bequeath my soul unto Almightie God my creator and to Jesus Christ 
my redeemer and my bodie to be buried in the Church or church-yard of 
Calvley in full assurance of resurreccon to eternall life. Item for my 
temporall goods first my will is that they be divided into three severall pts 
according as the law requireth and that my debts be paid out of the whole, 
that is to say my wife to have her three pts and my children one other third 
pte and myselfe one other third pte and for myne owne pte my will is that 
I be honestlie brought forth and my funall expences discharged. The rest 
I give to my children equallie, that is to say to Elkhanah, Samuel, Jona- 

• Idle or Idel in Olden Time, by J. Horsfull Turner. 



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than, John, Tymothie and Benjamin. Item notwithstanding the pmisses 
I give and bequeath unto John Gibson x s and unto Allice Gibson v s and 
unto Anne Gibson v s. Item for my houses land and leases I give and 
bequeath them unto Nathaniel Wales myne eldest sonne Provided alwaise 
that the said Nathaniel shall paie out of the said land the somes of 50 Is, 
that is to sale to Elkanah Wales vi li. xiii s. iiii d ; to Samuel Wales vi li- 
xiii s. iiii d ; to Jonathan Wales viii li and to Beniamyn Wales ix li xiii s 
iiii d in manner and forme following that is to say ix li xiii s iiii d to the 
use and behoof to Benjamin AYales my youngest sonne within one whole 
yeare next after my decease and to Timothie Wales in like manner Ix li 
xiii 8 iiii within one whole yeare next ensuing and to Jonathan Wales and 
John Wailes either of them viii li xiii s iiii d in the third yeare next fol- 
lowing and to Elkanah Wales and Samuel Wales either of them v li xiii s 
iiii d in the fourth year next following. Item I do appoint the tuicon of 
Jonathan, John Wales and Tymothie Wailes to my eldest sonnes Nathaniel 
Wales and Elkannah Wales whom I do make and ordaine executors of this 
my last Will and Testament These being Witnesses Samuel Waterhouse 
Georsce Nelson John Marshall. 

Probate of this Will was granted by the Exchequer Court of York, on 
twenty sixth day of November 1610, to Nathaniel Wales and Elkanah 
Wales sons of the deceased the executors in the same Will named."* . 

Without doubt John Wales, the testator, was buried according to his re- 
quest in the church yard of St. Wilfred's, Calverly, but the parish records 
for that and a few succeeding years are unfortunately lost to us. 

He married (1) Margaret , who was buried at Calverly, 17 May, 

1600 ; and before 27 October, 1605, he married again, and made mention 
of this second wife in his will. 

Children by first marriage : 

2. i. Nathaniel,^ bpt. 26 Feby., 1586; d. 4 Dec, 1661; m. (1) ; m. 

(2) ; m. (3) Susanna Greeuway. 

3. ii. Rev. Elkanah, bpt. 15 Dec. 1588; d. 11 May, 1669; ra. (1) Ann Par- 

ker; m. (2) Elizabeth Claveriug. 
iii. Rev. Samuel, b. circa 1590; d. at Morley, in Calverly, in 1626. He 
was minister at Old Chapel Morley, an earnest and zealous Puri- 
tan; an intimate friend of Lord Wliartou, and the pious and 
learned author of a work published in 1627, entitled Totum Hom- 
ines; or. The Whole Duty of a Christian; Consisting of Faith and 
a Good Life, by the late Severend and Worthy Mr. Saimtel Wales, 
Minister of the Gospel in Morley. A second edition was issued in 
1681, by Lord Wharton and his brother, Sir Philip Wharton, for 
the benefit of their cliiidreu and grand-children. Mr. Wales left 
five children, of whom, Samuel,^ b. U Oct., 1690; buried 15 Aug., 
1638 ; was graduated at University College, Cambridge, 23 April, 
1638 ; John, matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 6 July, 

» District Probate Registry at York. Vol. 51, 1609-1611, p. 408. 



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1638, ag-ed seventeen years; Nehemiah, of Newcastle, who pre- 
deceased his uncle, the Rev. Elkaiiah Wales, and whose children 
were legatees under the will of the latter; and Elkanah^ bu. at 
Calverly 10 Mar., 1635. 

iv. Jonathan, bpt. 15 Nov. 1592. 

v. Joiix, bpt. 2 Feby., 1594. 

vi. Timothy, bpt. 12 March, 159G. 

vii. Bknja.min, bpt. 27 May, 1599; bu. 12 March, 1600. 

viii. , m. Humphrey Gunter. Issue, Edith Gunter, who m. Rob- 
ert Hicksou of Leeds. 

ix. , (probably) m. Gibson. Issue, 1, John Gibson; 2, 

Alice Gibson ; 3, Annie Gibson. 

Issue by second marriage: 

X. Benjamin, bpt. 27 Oct., 1605; called late of Bradford, deceased, in 
will of his brother. Rev. Elkanah Wales. Issue : Rosamond 
Wales, who married Jeremy Bower, and perhaps others. 

2. Nathaniel^ Wales {Joh-n}) was bom at Idle, baptized at the parish 
church of St. Wilfred's, Calverly, Yorkshire, 26 February, 1586, 
and died at Boston, Massachusetts, 4 December, 1661. He was a 
weaver, and in this fact may possibly be found the guiding cause 
for his removal to the New World, for he may have contemplated 
the planting and expansion of that industry in the young country. 
Whatever his design, he disposed of his inherited houses, lands and 
leases in Idle, and was a passenger with tlie Rev. Richard Mather, 
and one hundred others, in the James of Bristol, which cleared from 
that port for New England, 23 May, 1 635, Captain Taylor master, 
A severe westerly storm compelled a return to anchor and it was 
ten days later, or 4 June, when the ship finally set sail on her long 
journey, this time accompanied by four others, the Diligence of 
Bristol, the Mary and the Bess, bound for Newfoundland, and the 
Angel Gabriel for New England. After considerable peril in the 
remarkable storm of two days preceding, the James arrived in 
l^oston on 17 August, 1635. The list of passengers is largely con- 
jectural, but the names of Rev. Daniel Maude, Nathaniel Wales, 
Barnabas Tower and Thomas Armitage, are mentioned in Mr. 
Mather's Journal of the voyage, and it is thought that among the 
company was the brother-in-law of Nathaniel Wales, afterwards 
the celeln-ated Major General Humphrey Atherton, who, with Mr. 
Wales, assisted Mr. Mather in nurturing the first church of Dor- 
chester into thrifty life, despite the fact that much of it had been 
transplanted to Windsor, Connecticut. 

-Mr. Wales became a freeman of Massachusetts Colony and a 
nirmljcr of the body politic, 2 November, 1637, at the same time as 
John Harvard, founder of the College which perpetuates his name. 



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During his early years in the Colony he resided at Dorchester, but 
removed to Boston, probably about 1649, was received into the 
church at Boston, 3 March, 1651, with his wife Susanna, and spent 
the remainder of his life in that town, being described in his will of 
20 June, 1661, as Nathaniel Wales, senior, of Boston, weaver. This 
instrument provides for the payment of his debts and funeral ex- 
penses and directs that his wife shall have his "house and Land in 
Boston " for life, she keeping the same " in tenentable repaire and 
paying " ten shillings yearly rental to his sons Timothy, John and 
Nathaniel. After the wife's decease the house and land are to be 
divided between the sons, with a double portion to Timothy. His 
land at Dorchester lying " upon the South east side of Neponset 
River " is to be shared, in the proportion of two-thirds to the eldest, 
by Timothy and Nathaniel, John having received " Land equivalent 
already." The remainder of the movable estate is given "• the one 
halfe unto my Loving wife, she having beene a helpefull & Loveing 
wife to me in my old age & the other halfe I give to my 3 sonnes, 
Timothy haveing a double portion." Provision to the extent of 
fifty shillings each is made for two " Servant maids," Priscilla and 
Sarah, " when their time is out," and the testator concludes, with an 
explanation of his " minde concerning that pt of my house I have 
ginen my sonne Timothy, y' my Grand Child, Timothy Walls, 
junior shall be equall sharer with his father therein," and with mak- 
ing "my wife executor & ray Brotlier-iu-Law, Humphery Atherton, 
overseer." From a deposition dated the day before the death of Mr. 
Wales, it would appear that Major Humphrey Atherton, the only 
witness to the will, had pre-deceased its maker, who, sensible of his 
swiftly approaching demise, desired that his will should be read 
to him, and this being done by D"" William Snelling and Elder John 
Wisewell, he " confirmed it in all points," adding only this, that he 
gave his wife, over and aboue what is given her in the will, y* bedd 
in the Little Chamber with y® furniture thereto." The estate, a 
substantial one for the period, was inventoried 3 January, 1661, o. s., 
and the widow, Susanna Wales, made a deposition in connection 
therewith, 1 February following. 

Mr. Wales would seem to have married three times ; at least this 
is the logical solution of the expressed relationship between himself 
and others, but the order of such marriages is not now determinable. 
One of his wives was doubtless a sister of Edward Bullock of Dor- 
chester who calls him " brother Wales " in papers specified in his 
will of 25 July, 1649. Another was probably the sister of Major 
Humphrey Atherton, whom as is before stated he designated in his 
will as " loving brother-in-law " ; and the last, who was married be- 



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fore 5 February, 1650, was Susanna, daughter of John Greenway 
of Dorchester, who in a deed of that date speaks of his " daughter 
Susanna Wales and her children if she have any." It is possible too 
that Nathaniel Wales, Edward Bullock and Humphrey Atherton 
married sisters. But the will of John Wales of Idle practically 
negatives the repeated statement that Humphrey Atherton married 
Mary Wales, his daughter, by naming no such daughters. And 
the will of his son, the Rev. Elkanah Wales, contains no confir- 
matory hint of such relationship. 

Children all born at Idle and baptized at Calverly : 

i. Sarah,' bpt. 28 Dec, 1613. 

>. ii. Timothy, bpt. 5 Nov., 1616; d. circa Mar., 1690; m. 

iii. Anna, bpt. 28 Nov., 1618. 

:. iv. John, bpt. 18 Oct., 1620; bu. 17 Oct., 1707; m. Elizabeth . 

. v. Nathaniel, bpt. 18 April, 1623 ; d. 20 May, 1662 ; m. Isabel Atherton. 

Reverend Elkanah^ Wales {John}) was born at Idle, baptized at 
the parish church of St. Wilfred's, Calverly, 15 December, 1588, 
and died at the house of Mr. Robert Hickson at Leeds, 11 May, 
1669, being buried in the choir of St. John's Church in that town. 
After a course at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was grad- 
uated M.A. in 1613, he accepted the poor curacy of Pudsey in his 
native parish, in 1614, and was made Vicar of Calverly 23 Decem- 
ber, 1615. Here he labored most assiduously and became by 1648 
one of the most prominent promoters of the spread of Congregation- 
alism throughout the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is said by his 
various biographers that he drew great multitudes to hear his evan- 
gelical teaching ; that he was courted by the grandees of his restless 
age, with whom he might easily have made his own terms ; that he 
received numerous and pressing invitations to other and more im- 
portant places, Carlisle, Rufford, , New England, Newcastle and 
Leeds, but that no offers of preferment could draw him from 
his people until the Black Bartholmew Act silenced his voice 
in his little chapel on Pudsey Hill. Even then he continued to re- 
side among his beloved flock and to preach privately until, by that 
piece of refined cruelty, the Five Mile Act of 1666, he was made 
a wanderer in his old age and accepted the position of assistant 
to the Rev. Mr. Todd of Leeds, and did not long survive the sever- 
ing of his parochial ties. 

Mr. Wales was not only a preacher of considerable persuasive 
eloquence, but a theological writer of some ability as well ; his pub- 
lished works being : " A Short Catechism, or y« errors of the Chris- 
tian Religion in 34 questions and answers, by Elk. Wales, minister 
of the Gospel at Pudsey in Yorkshire, London, 1652"; an 8 vo. 



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tract entitled " A Writ of Error, or a Ffriendly examination of a 
question deeply concerning Marryed persons or such as intend to 
marry, by E. W. [Elk. Wales, York, 1654"], and "Mount Ebal 
Levelled, or Redemption from the Curse, by Elkanah Wales, M.A., 
preacher of the Gospel, at Piidsey, in Yorkshire, London, 1659." 
This last and greatest of his works was dedicated to the Right Hon- 
orable Thomas Fairfax, who entertained for the author a singular 
and sincere esteem. 

His will, which was executed at Leeds, 27 April, 1669, throws 
considerable light upon his kindred and friends and is given entire : 
" 1 Elkanah Wales late of Pudsey in the countie of York Minister of 
the Gospel being now aged and not farr from the sunset of my day 
here below yet at psent in reasonable health and perfect memorie 
(blessed be God) doe ordaiue and make this my last Will and Testa- 
ment in maner following. First I profess that Faith which was 
given to the Saints and is held forth in the Holy Scriptures where- 
in I have lived and I hope (by the grace of God) I shall die, even 
the faith of Jesus Christ the Lord of Glorie who hath abolished 
death and brought life and immortality to Light by the Gospell I 
know that my Redeemer liveth and I am persuaded that he is able 
to keep that which I have comitted unto to him against that day. 
Into his hands I comitt my Spirit, resolveing by his strength to 
hope to the end for the grace that shall be brought unto Beleavers 
in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Next I commit my bodie to the 
Earth whence it was taken to be buryed decently in the Chappell 
of Pudsey near unto the bodie of Anne my former wife if it can 
conveniently be. But forasmuch as by reason of my present un- 
settledness whereuuto I am necessitated I cannot probably forsee 
where or in what place I shall die therefore I refer the whole busi- 
ness to the discretion and care of my Executors hereafter to be 
named and my other living friends either jointly or severally as 
Providence shall order the time or place of my death. As to the 
disposing of that worldly Estate which God hath given me I doe de- 
clare my mind as followeth Imprimis Whereas I have by one 
Deed of Feoffment bearing date the second day of May in the Thir- 
teenth year of his Majesteis raigne that now is over England to be 
granted and conveyed unto M"^ James Sale* of Pudsey and James 

*The Rev. James Sale or Sales was a native of Pudsey, where he died in 1679 and 
was buried in the south aisle of Calverly Church. He had been educated at Cambridge 
and had ministered at Lincoln and Thornton and at St. John's Leeds, where, as as- 
sistant to the Rev. Mr. Todd, he was silenced in 1662. Mr. Elkanah Wales preached a 
fast sermon at St. John's at the ordination of Mr. Sales, and Mr. Sales wrote a Memoir 
of Mr. Wales which is preserved among the Thoresby MSS. in the British Museum. 



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Sagar of AUerton and their heyres one messuage and certaine lands 
with the appurtenances in Idle within the Countie of York in the 
tenure and occupation of James Berrie or his assignes of intent to 
staud seized thereof to the use of me and mine assignes during the 
tenure of my naturall life and after my decease then to uses as I 
shall declare by my last Will in writing as thereby may appear. 
Kow I do hereby ratify and confirme the said deed and my will and 
mind is that I doe hereby declare and appoint that they shall stand 
seized after my decease to the use and behoofe of Samuel Wales 
Sonne of Nehemiah Wales late of Newcastle deceased and of his 
heyres and assignes forever ^^aying and discharging these several] 
legacies viz — that he his heyres or assigns shall pay or cause to be 
paid out of the same unto his two sisters Coustantia and Eliza- 
beth the whole sum of Fiftie pounds that is to say to either of 
them five and twenty pounds at their severall ages of one and 
t wen tie years or on the days of their respective marriages and if 
either of the said sisters shall die before then the surviving sister to 
have the whole sum of Fiftie pounds to her selfe If both of them 
die then he to be free from that charge. If both he and they die 
without issue then my will is that Fiftie pounds shall goe to the 
children of Thomas Sewell which he hath by Elizabeth his present 
wife late the wife of Nehemiah Wales aforesaid and the rest of the 
money to the children of my Executors. And if after my decease 
it shall be judged more advantageous to the aforesaid that the said 
house and lands shall be sold and alienated then my will is that they 
sliall be sold and I intrust my Executors to joyne with M'' James 
Sale the surviving feoffe in the selling thereof and improving the 
moneyes either by themselves or some other trustie persons unto 
some honest profitt towards the uses aforesaid Item out of the 
remainder of my estate in moneyes goods and chattels I give and 
bequeath these severall legacies. Imprimis to Sarah the wife of 
John Druroy of Idle I give Ten pounds. It. I give unto her two 
sonnes Samuel and Benjamin Swaine to either of them Twenty 
shillings and to her daughter Sarah the wife of John Clarkson of 
Hosforth Twenty shillings. It. I give unto John Suttill of Cant- 
ley Ten pounds. It. I give to the three sonnes of my brother Na 
thaniel late of Boston in New England to wit Timothie John and 
Nathaniel the sum of Ten pounds that is to say to every one of 
them five marks and if any of them be dead my will is that his or 
their respective parts shall goe to their widowes and children sur- 

Mr. Ralph Thorcsby, the eminent historian of Leeds, also compiled an account of the 
life and labors of Mr. Wales which is included in the Birch MSS. in the British 
Museum, No. 4460. 



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viving. And I intreat my cosin Matthew Boyes* to take upon him 
the care of sending it unto them in the fittest and safest way that 
he can. It. I give unto the poor of Pudsey Three pounds to be 
distributed by M'' Sale and John Downes or Joshua Lumby. To the 
poore of Idle Three pounds to be distributed by Jeremie Welfitt and 
Samuel Stable and to the poore of Calverly fourtie shillings to be 
distributed by M*^ Sandall and Joseph Hitchin, It. I give unto 
Rosamond the wife of Jeremie Bower and the daughter of Benja- 
min Wales my brother late of Bradford foure pounds. It. I give 
unto the three daughters of Nathaniel Bovver late of Bradford sixe 
pounds to every one of them fourtie shillings to be committed to the 
hands of M"^ Sale of Pudsey and employed for their use. It. I 
give unto Grace the wife of John Vicars of Idle Ten shillings. It. 
I give unto Anne Horsman of Leeds widow Ten shillings. It. I 
give unto James Berrie of Idle to Ellis Berrie Samuel Wilkinson 
and widow Brafitt of Bramley and to James Brafitt and Thomas 
Brook of Farsley to those sixe Three jjounds to every one Ten shil- 
lings. It. I give unto our late late maid servant, Ruth Peale now 
servant to M"" Ambrose Barnes Merchant of Newcastle upon Tyne 
Twentie shillings. It. Whereas M"^ Thomas Sewell of Carlisle 
owes to me Twentie pounds which I lent him in March 1668-9 I do 
wholly release and forgive that debt. It. to Samuel and Benja- 
min Swaine over and above the Twentie shillings apeace aforesaid I 
give eight pounds (vizt) each of them foure pounds. It. I give to 
the widow of Captain Simon Askwith dwelling at Kelfield Fourtie 
shillings and to his sonne Simon Askwith servant to M"^ Thomas 
Stillin<rton fourtie shillings It. I give unto Thomas Sewell of 
Carlisle tenne pounds and to Samuel Wales tenne pounds & to 
Constantia Wales tenne pounds & to Elizabeth Wales tenne pounds 
It. I give unto Anthony Cloudsley tenne shillings unto Anne Fearn- 
ley tenne shillings unto Elizabeth Abbott tenne shillings unto Mary 

♦Matthew Boyes had been at Roxbury in Massachusetts in 1639, and at Kovvley in 
1641, representing that town in the General Court or Assembly of the Colony several 
years between 1641 and 1650, but later returned to Leeds. Of him, Mr. Thomas Prince, 
the great New England antiquary, said: " Matthew Boyes [was] a man of known 
piety, integrity and usefulness in his station, tho' exercised w'h considerable worldly 
losses ; was an elder of the church of Rowley in New England, and one of their Depu- 
ties at Boston (during his abode there for about 18 years) and had at his coming thence 
an honourable testimonial of his being very serviceable, as well as exemplary in his 
behaviour." Besides Nathaniel Boyes, mentioned in the will of Elkanah Wales, Mr. 
Boyes had, Matthew Boyes, Jnr., who had spent some time in New England, and 
Joseph Boyes, born after the return of the family to Leeds, 14 Jan., 1659. The last 
named being, according to Dr. Increase Mather, a " worthy minister of the Presby- 
terian Judgement in Dublin " and the learned author of a collection of Discourses, 
Sermons and Tracts, published in London for John Gray, at the Cross Keys in the Poul- 
try, M.DCC.XXVIII. 



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Hudsmaugh & INIary Akid each of them five shillings & unto Tim- 
othy Memersley and Marke Moor each of them four shillings & to 
Samuel Dobsou tenne shillings. Touching my small Librarie be- 
sides those bookes that I lost in the time of the Warres and those 
which I have sold or given away since my will is that the resi- 
due shall thus be disposed I give to M"" James Sale D'' Davenante 
Commeutaire on the Colossians as for my English Bible in qrto of 
the last Ti'anslation because there be in it many profitable annota- 
tions and references which may be usefuU unto a minister or a 
scholar therefore my desire is that it may be comitted to the custo- 
die of M"" Sales, M"^ Rogers* or j\F Watertown or any other young 
man that is hopefull for learning and godliness and intends the min- 
istry upon condition that the person that is betrusted with it shall 
promise to keep it as farre from sullying as he can and when he 
hath made what use of it he pleaseth shall deliver it to Nathaniel 
Boyes the sonne of Matthew Boyes or any other of my kindred 
that shall proove a SchoUer and be fitt to make use of it. As for 
the English Bookes I give to John Downes of Pudsey to M"^^ Sale 
to Sarah Jenkinson to Elizabeth Boyes and to Edith Hickson to 
every of these one as they please to chuse for themselves. And 
for the remainder let some of the best be sold to those that desire 
them and the rest I give to Samuel Wales Elkanah Hickson and 
others of my kindred to be devided amongst them and for the rest of 
my estate whatsoever I give and bequeath unto my beloved cousin 
Matthew Boyes of Leeds ye elder & Robt Hickson of ye same 
whom I doe hereby ordain and constitute my Executors of this my 
last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett 

*Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, son of Rev. Richard Rogers, and brothei- of the Rev. Daniel 
Rogers, prominent non-conformists, was born at Wethersfield in Essex, England, in 
1590, and entered the University of Cambridge at the age of thirteen, receiving the 
degree of A.B. at Corpus Christi in 1604, and M.A. at Christ's College in 1608. After 
a chaplaincy in the family of Sir Francis Barrington at Hatfield, Broad Oak in Essex, 
he obtained the benefice of Rowley in Yorkshire where he exercised his ministry for 
about twenty years, though finally silenced for non-conformity. In 1638, accompanied 
by many of his Yorkshire friends, he emigrated to Massachusetts and commenced a 
new plantation to which was given the name of Rowley, and where he was ordained 
in December, 1639. He acquired a high reputation in the colony, and, in 1643, preached 
the Election Sermon which the Rev. Cotton Mather says made him famous throughout 
the whole country. He continued at Rowley, visited, however, by a melancholy suc- 
cession of bereavements. There he buried his wife, Sarah, daughter of John Everard 
of London, and all bis children. His second wife was a daugliter of the Rev. John Wil- 
son of Boston, and she, too, with her child, was soon removed by death ; and upon the 
night of his third marriage, to M;iry, the widow of Thomas Barker of Rowley, fire 
levelled his house to the ground, including all its furniture and a valuable library 
brought by him from England. After a lingering illness he died at Rowley, 23 January, 
1660. His library, which had been gathered after the destruction of his house, he be- 
queathed to Harvard College, and his house and lands to the town of Rowley for the 
maintenance of the ministry there. 



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my hand & seale this Twenty seventh clay of April one thousand 

six hundred sixty nine &in the year of the Raigne of Kin^ 

Charles the Second &c. Witnesses — Timothy Smith, John Mihier 
James Robinson, Elk. Wales." 

Proved 20'^^ July. 1669. 

]VP Wales married (1) at Leeds, 13 June, 1616, Ann Parker, who 
was buried at Pudsey, 18 May, 1660; and (2) Elizabeth Claver- 
ing of Caliley in Northumberland, widow of Thomas Butler,* a 
merchant of Newcastle, who survived him. Oliver Hayward, the 
non-conformist diarist, is responsible for the statement that, in addi- 
tion to other ills, Mr. Wales bore in his later years, the evil which 
marred the life of Socrates —a wife's uncomfortable tongue. 

5. Timothy^ Wales {Nathaniel,^ John^) was baptized at St. Wilfred's, 
Calverly, 5 November, 1616, and died at Milton, Massachusetts, 
before 31 March, 1690. He accompanied his father to Massachu- 
setts in the James of Bristol, and, inheriting his father's lands in 
Dorchester, remained there, residing at what was then Unquety or 
Uncataqissett, but which, on 7 May, 1662, was established as the 
town of Milton. His home, on the south side of the Neponset 
River, was at a considerable distance from the " free schoole " on 
Rocky Hill which the Selectmen of Dorchester had provided, as 
early as February, 1641, o. s., "for the instructinge and Teachinge 
of Children and youth in good literature and Learning," and in 
which they had by 1655 arranged that Mr. Ichabod Wisewell should 
teach all children " Comitted unto his Care in Ennslish Latine 
and Greeke as from time to time the Cheldren shall be Capable and 
allso instruct them in Writinge as hee shall be able : which is to be 
understood such Children who are so fare entred all redie to know 
there Leters and to spell some what." The distance, frequent 
change in teachers, or other contributory causes, engendered in 
Timothy Wales and some of his neighbors a certain indifference as 
to their children's attendance at school which the selectmen were 
not slow to take cognizance of, and accordingly summoned Timothy 
Wales, his wife and their " two lesser boys " with four other fami- 
lies to appear before them, 8 January, 1671, "to be enquired after 

*His daughter, Jane Butler, was the first wife of the Rev. John Oxenbridge of Bos- 
ton, Mass., who, born at Daventry, Northamptonshire, 30 Jan., 1609; matriculated at 
Lincoln College, Oxford, 20 June, 1623, but was subsequently transferred to Cam- 
bridge, where he finished his education; preached a few years in Bermuda and then 
returned to England and was ejected in 1662 ; went to Surinam and Barbadoes and 
finally to Boston, where he was installed over the First Church, 10 April, 1669, as col- 
league with the Rev. James Allen. The Rev. William Emerson, in his History of the 
First Church, says of him : " He is reckoned by the historians of Boston, among the 
most elegant writers, as well as eloquent preachers of his time." 



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concerning their education and improvement of their time." Mr. 
Wales resented the interference of the Selectmen, and his " words 
and answers" proved "offensive and contemptuous" to that august 
body, and he was requested again " to appear and to give* an acompt 
how he answers the law title Children and youth." On his second 
appearance he made a satisfactory acknowledgment of his previous 
choleric words, and his sons being admonished were dismissed. 

Family tradition is responsible for the repeated statements that 
" he was eminently pious and that in the latter part of his life he 
married a second wife, but that she was so clamorous and uncom- 
fortable that he built a cave in the woods where he lived alone for a 
number of years and died aged eighty. "f 

The inventory of his estate was taken 31 March, 1690, and dis- 
cribes him as " Timothy Wales Sen"" of Milton, deceased." Included 
therein is " the house and fifteen acres of land ; land at Squantom 
Neck, sixteen acres, one fourth part of a house and lands at Boston, 
besides salt and fresh meadows." " Timothy and Nathaniel Wales, 
two of the sons of the above named Timothy deceased were ad- 
mitted to administer by the Hon'^^® Simon Bradstreet. "J 

The name of the wife of Timothy Wales has not been ascertained 
and there is nothing in the public records to indicate that he had 
married more than once. 

Children : 

i. Timothy,* b. at Dorchester, in 1651 ; d. at Boston, after 20 August, 

1720; m. (1) ; m. (2) Sarah , who d. at Boston, 3 

May, 1726, in her flf ty-seventh year, and was interred in Copp's Hill 
Burial Ground. He served in Capt. Samuel Mosleys Co. in King 
Philip's War, in Dec, 1675, and was probably he who took the oath 
of allegiance before Major Pynchon at Hatfield, Mass., in 1678. 

His will of 5 Dec, 1702, with Codicils of 7 Sept., 1713, and 20 
Aug., 1720, describes hira as "properly belonging to the town 
of Boston, aged about lifty-one years," and devised to his now 
married wife Sarah " all right, title, share and interest in and to 
any tract of land appertaining to me or descended from my grand- 
father, Nathaniel Wales, and lying within the township of Dor- 
chester."|| This land, his widow bequeathed to Samuel Wright 
of Concord, and to Martha, wife of Israel Hale of Stowe. Na- 
thaniel Wales of Windham, in the County of Hartford, executed 
a quit-claim deed to these heirs 1 Nov., 1726, calling himself a 
brother of Timothy Wales deceased and grandson of Nathaniel 
Wales. § No issue survived. 

• Town Records of Dorchester. 

t Genealogy of the Wales Family, by William Howe Whittemore, Brooklyn, 1874. 

t Suffolk Probate Files, No. 1720. 

II Suffolk Probate Records, Vol. 22. pp. 408-9. 

{ Suffolk Registry of Deeds, Vol. 40, pp. 237-8. 



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ii. Eleazer, b. at Dorchester, 25 Dec, 1657; was a soldier under the 
command of Capt. John Withington in the Cunada Expedition of 
1690. 
8. iii. Nathaniel, b. in 1662; d. 22 June, 1744; m. (1) Susanna Blake; 
(2) Lydia Huntington. 

6. JoHN^ Wales {Nathaniel^^ John}) was baptized at Calverly, York- 
shire, 18 October, 1G20, and was buried at Dorchester, 17 October, 
1707. With his father he sailed form Bristol, England, for New 
England, 23 May, 1635, and arrived at Boston, 17 August following. 
On reaching manhood he settled at Dorchester in that part known as 
Captain's Neck, near the Creek later called Wales Creek, where the 
town, shortly after the death of John Wales, ordered that a wharf 
should be built, and for that purpose laid out a way for the use and 
benefit of the inhabitants thereof. This way is the present Creek 
Street running east from Pleasant Street. 

From 1653 Mr. Wales held many of the town offices, and, des- 
cribed as " John Wales Sen', a member of the Church of Christ in 
Dorchester," he petitioned the General Court of the Colony in 
June, 1677, to be made a freeman or member of the body politic, 
which request was granted 10 October following. 

He married Elizabeth , who died at Dorchester, 26 Nov- 
ember, 1701. 

Children probably all born at Dorchester : 

i. John,'' b. circa 1634; d. Dorchester, 18 June, 1683. 

ii. Hannah, d. Dorchester, 19 Oct. 1732 ; m. Ebenezer Billings of Dor- 
chester; their eldest son, Rev. Richard Billings, was graduated at 
Harvard in 1698, and became minister of the church at Little 
Compton. 

iii. Content, b. 14 May, 1659; m. at Dorchester, 15 Oct., 1679, John 
Mason of Dorchester. He d. 18 Mar., 1683. 

iv. Elizabeth, b. 1 July, 1662; d. Dorchester, 30 June, 1673. 

V. Elkanah, b. 16 June, 1665 ; d. Dorchester, 15 Aug. 1689. 

7. Nathaniel^ Wales {Nathaniel^^ John}) was born, as were his 
brothers, at Idle, in Yorkshire, and baptized at the parish church at 
Calverly, 18 April, 1623. He accompanied his father to Massa- 
chusetts in 1635, and died at Boston, 20 May, 1662. 

It appears from the records of the General Court of the Colony 
that for a short time at least he was a resident of Falmouth, and that 
his life in the new world had not caused him to entirely forswear the 
faith and practice of the Church of England, for at the Session of 
the Assembly held at Boston, 16 October, 1660, "it appears to this 
Court, by seuerell testimonyes of good repute, that Mr. Robert 
Jordan did in July last, after exercise was ended upon the Lord's 
day, in the house of Mrs. Mackworth, in the towne of Falmouth, 



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then and there baptize three children of Nathaniell Wales, of the 
same towne, to the offence of the government of this Comonwealth, 
this Court judgeth it necessary to bear witness agt such irregular 
practices, doe therefore order that the Secretary, by letter, in the 
name of this Court, require him to desist from any such practices 
for the future, and also that he appeare before the next Generall 
Court to ans"" what shall be laid agt him for what he hath donne for 
the time past."* The offense against the government consisted in 
the fact that Mr. Jourdain having received priest's orders from the 
Established Church continued his allegiance thereto, which was con- 
trary to the practice of the other clergy of the Colony. 

In his will of 18 May, 1662, Mr. Wales called himself of Boston, 
** ship-carpenter," and directed that his estate should be divided 
among his children, with a double portion to his eldest son, Nathaniel. 

His wife was Isabel, daughter of Major-General Humphrey 
Atherton of Dorchester, who was born in England and died at 
Boston, 18 December, 1661. 

Children : 

i. Elder Nathaniel* Wales, was of age in Oct., 1670 ; d. at Braintree, 
Mass., 23 Mar., 1718 ; m. (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Billings, 
of Dorchester, b. 27 Oct., 1659 ; d. 22 Oct., 1676 ; m. (2) Joanna, 
youngest daughter of Thomas Faxon of Braintree, who d. 11 May, 
1704. Mr. "Wales was made Ruling Elder of the church in Brain- 
tree, 27 Feby., 1701. Of his fifteen children, all but Elizabeth, b. 
10 Feby., 1675, m. 19 June, 1694, John Child of Roxbury, were by 
the second marriage. His son Bev. John^ Wales, b. at Braintree, 

25 May, 1699, was graduated at Harvard in 1728 and became the 
first pastor of the church at Rayuham, Mass., where he died, 23 
Feby., 1765 ; by his wife, Hazadiah Leonard, he was the father of 
Samuel^ Wales, D.D., b. at Raynhara, 2 Mar., 1748 ; d. New Haven, 
Conn., 18 Feby., 1794; was graduated at Yale, in 1767, and 
later Professor of Divinity in that institution; his second son, 
the Hon. John'' Wales, b. New Haven, 31 July, 1783; d. "Wilming- 
ton, Delaware, 3 Dec, 1863; was graduated at Yale In 1801; 
studied law and was admitted to the bar of his native state; re- 
moved to Delaware, where he was appointed Secretary of State 
for Delaware in 1845, and in 1849 was elected to the United States 
Senate to fill the unexpired term of John M. Clayton. A son of 
Hon. John Wales, the Hon. Leonard Eugene^ Wales, b. Wilmington, 

26 Nov., 1823; d. 8 Feb., 1897; was graduated at Yale in 1845; 
studied law, became an able practitioner, and later Associate 
Judge of Delaware for New Castle County, and on 20 Mar., 1884, 
United States Judge for the district of Delaware ; and was also 
for many years the President of the Delaware Historical Society. 
The youngest son of Elder Nathaniel* Wales, the Bev. Atherton^ 

* Massachusetts Colonial Records, "Vol. iv, Part I, 436. 



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Wales, b. Mar., 1704; was graduated at Harvard in 1726 and 
settled over the second Church of Marshtteld, Mass., where he 
died, 29 Nov., 1795. 

ii. Maiiy, b. 9 Feby., 16.^8; m. June, 1GS4, Nicholas George. 

ill. Samuel, d. at Dorchester, 20 Jan., 1712; ni. (1) Mary , who 

d. at Dorchester, April, 1700; m. (2) Hannah, daughter of Jona- 
than Peake of Roxbury, who d. at Dorchester, 1 June, 1731, aged 
sixty-eight years. 

iv. Jonathan, soldier in King Pliilip's War, joined with his brothers 
and sister under date of 13 Sept , 1G85, in the sale of his father's 
lands and buildings in Boston, near the New Meeting House.* On 
21 Oct., 1728. his daughter, Elizabeth Cutting of Killingly, Conn., 
conveyed lands in Dorchester which had belonged to her grand- 
father, Nathaniel Wales. 

). Deacon Nathaniel* Wales ( Timothy,^ Nathaniel,^ John^) was born 
in 1662, in that part of Dorchester which later became Milton, 
and died at Windham, Connecticut, 22 June, 1744. 

The first half of his life was spent at Milton, where he was ad- 
mitted to "full communion " in its church in 1687, and sometime 
thereafter he removed to the Windham County territory which lay 
directly on the route from Massachusetts to the Connecticut River, 
and was part of that wilderness, the Nipmuck Country, crossed ob- 
liquely by only a rude trail called the Connecticut Path. But over 
this path hundreds had already toiled, carrying civilization to new 
homes in the wilderness, making no halting place at Windham until 
shortly before 12 June, 1692, when the first town meeting was held 
there and the nucleus of a church gathered. It was 4 December, 
1700, however, before the church was fully organized at Windham 
Green, as the " Hither Place," or the southeast quarter, the most 
populous and prosperous of the vill iges which then constituted the 
town of Windham, had come to be called. And here, on that day, 
the Rev. Samuel Whiting was ordained, nearly eight years after 
the assumption of his pastoral duties, and Thomas Bingham, Jo- 
seph Carey, and Nathaniel Wales were chosen deacons, becoming 
by virtue of their high office the spiritual fathers of the town. 

How Ions before this Nathaniel Wales had been settled at the 
" Hither Place," and near the Shetaucket River, is a matter of con- 
jecture, but there he continued to reside until that event for which no 
man can plan, retaining in a large degree the esteem of his fellows, 
as the subjoined abstract from the Church Records bears witness : 
" Mr. Nathaniel Wales, chosen one of the deacons of the church at 
its organization in 1700, after he had served God in his generation 
faithfully many years in his life did with the holy disciple lean upon 

« Suffolk County, Mass., Registry of Deeds, Liber xiii, ff 371-2. 



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the breast of his beloved, and by the will of God meekly fell asleep 
iu the cradle of death on the 22 day of June, 1744 in the 85"" year 
of his age." 

His will, executed just three months preceding his death, and 
proved on the 27th June following, described him as Esquire and 
gave evidence that his length of days had brought him considerable 
worldly prosperity, which enabled him to provide liberally for his 
wife Lydia, sons Nathaniel, Ebenezer and Eleazer, grandchildren 
Joshua AYest, Susanna, wife of Jonathan Delano, and Sarah West, 
the children of deceased daughter Susanna. 

He married (1) at Milton, 30 August, 1688, Susanna, daughter 
of Edward and Patience (Pope) Blake,* born iu Boston, 20 July, 
1661, and died at Windham, 5 February, 1729. He married (2) at 
Windham, 22 August, 1730, Lydia Huntington, who survived him 
and by whom he had no issue. 

Children : 

i. Susanna,^ bapt. 6 Mar., 1691; d. U Oct., 1723; m. 14 Jan., 1713, 
Hon. Ebenezer West, b. Duxbury, Mass., 23 July, 1676; d. Leba- 
non, Conn., 31 Oct., 1758. He represented the town of Lebanon 
in the General Assembly of Conn, for forty-six sessions, and was 
one of the Judges of the County Court. His epitaph states that 
he was " eminent for the strong powers of his mind, the honesty 
and integrity of his heart, and ye seriousness of his virtue. He 
long and faithfully served ye church of Christ in the office of a 
deacon, and his country in the character of a justice and a judge, 
and discharged duties of every relation with uprightness." Issue : 
1. Sarah West, b. 25 Jan., 1714. 2. Hon. Joshua West, b. 30 July, 
1715; d. 9 Nov., 1783; ra. (1) Sarah Wattles; (2) Elizabeth Wil- 
liams; was graduated at Yale in 1738; member of Connecticut 
Assembly twenty-seven sessions; Judge of the County Court; 
Captain of militia and in the French and Indian War, and one of 

• William Blake, the first of bis family to emigrate to Ma«sacliusetts, was baptized 
at Pitminster, Somersetshire, England, 10 July, 1594, where his father, William Blalie, 
had purchased land in 1586. He married 23 September, 1617, Mrs. A?nes Bond, pos- 
sibly the widow of Richard Bond, of Rutherford, and daughter of Hugh Thorne; she 
was the mother of his children and died at Dorchester, Mass., 22 July, 1678. He was 
of Dorchester as early as 2 .lanuarj', 1637. and a member of the Ancient and Honor- 
able Artillery Company of Boston in 1646. The records of Dorchester of 1663 make 
this note of his death : •' This year Died Mr. William Blake who had been Clerk of 
ye Writs for ye Co. of Suffolk and Recorder for ye Town near 8 years. He was also 
Clerk of ye Training Band. He died ye 25th of ye 8'h Mo., 1663, in ye 69'^ year of his 
age." 

Edward Blake, probably the youngest son of William and Agnes Blake, after some 
residence in Dorchester, settled in Milton, Mass., in 1672, when he and his brother 
William were among the founders of its Church in 1678; and where he died 3 Sept., 
1692. His will of 31 Aug. preceding made a bequest to daughter, Susanna Wales, 
above. He married Patience, daughter of John and Jane Pope of Dorchester. — For 
further details see Increase Blake of Boston. His Ancestors and Descendants. 




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the nine members of the Revolutionary Committee of Safety of 
the Colony. 3. Bathsheha Westyh. 8 March, 1717; d. young. 4. 
/Susanna TFesi, b. 17 Jan., 1719; m. Jonathan Delano. 5. Ebenezer 
West, b. 11 April, 1721; d. young. 6. Jonathan West, b. 2 Oct., 
1723; d. young. 7. David West, twin of preceding, also died 
young. 
9. ii. Deacon Nathaniel, Esq., b. 28 May, 1694; d. 5 Nov., 1782; m. (1) 

Mercy West; ra. (2) Prudence Denison. 
10. iii. Deacon Ebenezer, Esq., b. 25 June, 1696; d. 12 April, 1776; m. (1) 
Esther Smith ; (2) Deborah Ward. 

iv. Timothy, b. 17 June, 1698; d. unmarried at Windham, 15 Aug., 
1719. 

V. Rev. Eleazar, b. 3 June, 1700 ; died without issue circa July, 1750 ; 

m. Elizabeth , who was licensed to marry 23 Dec, 1752, 

John Little of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; was 
graduated at Yale in 1727, and was licensed to preach by the 
Windham Co. Association of Ministers, 10 Oct., 1727; in 1731 he 
was settled by the Philadelphia Presbytery over a church then 
gathered in the neighborhood of Crosswick's and Allentown, near 
Trenton, New Jersey; in Sept., 1735, he was called to Millstone, 
in Somerset Co., N. J., and remained in charge of this congrega- 
tion and of the neighboring church of Kingston, within the bor- 
ders of Middlesex Co., N. J., until his death. In the schism 
which rent the Synod of Philadelphia in June, 1741, he went 
with the New Side and joined the Presbytery of New Brunswick. 

. Deacon Nathaniel^ Wales, Esq. {Deacon Nathaniel* Esq., Timo- 
thy,^ Nathaniel,'^ John^) was born at Milton, 28 May, 1694, and died 
at Windham, 5 November, 1782. In ecclesiastical matters he fol- 
lowed the example of his father, and was also active in the civil and 
military affairs of the town, church or colony, from May 1730, when 
he was commissioned ensign of the first military company of Wind- 
ham, until his death. In October, 1740, he was promoted to a 
lieutenancy of the same company; from 1751 he was repeatedly 
commissioned justice of the peace and of the Courts of Windham 
County, and from 1753, most of the years to 1778, he was one of 
the leading members of the Connecticut Assembly. On 20 May, 
1772, he was chosen a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 
composed of the principal men in the Assembly, among them being 
Ebenezer Silliman, Samuel Holden Parsons, Silas Deane, Joseph 
Trumbull and Erastus Wolcott. As a member of the Council or 
Committee of Safety from 1775 until 1777, he performed valuable 
service for the cause of Independence. In September, 1775, he was 
sent by the Council to Philadelphia to procure funds from the Con- 
tinental Congress with which to further the patriotic interests in 
Connecticut, and, during the same year, he was appointed by the 
Assembly a member of a Committee to wait upon the Provincial 
Congresses of New York and New Jersey " in order to procure in- 



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telligence of the measures that might be adopted by them respecting 
the common cause of the British Colonies." 

In the industrial world, too, Mr. Wales made his influence felt 
and achieved a competency. And his sagacity and business force 
were exemplified in the enterprise, begun with Colonel Elderkin in 
December, 1755, of erecting a factory on the Willimantic River for 
the manufacture of gunpowder, which seems to have been highly 
successful, as in May following Mr. Wales reported to the Assembly 
that 1000 pounds of the powder had been produced in the interim. 

He married (1) 1-4 February, 1716, Mercy West, daughter of 
Francis West of Stonington and Tolland, Connecticut, bom at 
Preston, Connecticut, 30 October, 1697 ; died at Windham, 20 
January, 1725. He married (2) 27 December, 1726, Prudence 
Denison, who died 15 May, 1792. 

Children by first marriage, born in Windham : 

i. Jerusha,« b. 27 Nov., 1717; m. (1) 29 Jan., 1735, Ebenezer Gary, 
Jun. ; ra. (2) Laselle. 

ii. Zekviah, b. 11 Nov., 1719; m. 11 May, 1738, Ebenezer Fitch. 

iii. Susanna, b. 5 Feby., 1722; d. y. 

iv. Tlmothy, b. 6 Sept., 1725; d. y. 

Children by second marriage, born in Windham : 

v. Nathaniel, b. 14 Feby., 1727; d. July, 1728. 

vi. Prudence, b. 12 Jan., 1729. 

vii. Abner, b. 9 March, 1730; d. 10 June, 1733, 

Till. Captain Nathaniel, b. 1 June, 1733; m. 9 February, 1755, Grace 
Brewster, by whom he had ten children. He Vv'as commissioued 
ensign of the 9th Company, Third Regiment of Connecticut 
Militia, in April, 1775, and second lieutenant in May, 1776. On 
7 Aug., 1777, he was made Captain of the 1st Company of the 
Alarm List, 5th Regiment Connecticut Militia, and so continued 
throughout the war. 

ix. Abner, b. 25 June, 1735; d. 7 January, 1736. 

X. Susanna, b. 7 March, 1736; d. y. 

xi. Lieutenant Jonathan, b. 11 April, 1738; m. 19 May, 1757, Ziba 
Abbe. He was commissioned ensign of the 1st Company Fifth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia in May, 1768, and advanced to a 
lieutenancy in May, 1769. Under his father's will of 3 Dec, 
1771, he shared with his brother Nathaniel his father's estate in 
Windham, and his " rights in the Susquehanna Purchase." 

xii. Shubal, b. 3Nov., 1740; d. 25 Dec, 1748. 

xiii. Prudence, b. 20 March, 1746; d. 30 Nov., 1748. 

xiv. Abigail, b. 21 January, 1748; m. Thomas Gray. 

XV. William, b. 20 June, 1750; d. 6 Nov., 1761. 

10. Deacon Ebenezer^ Wales, Esq. {Deacon Nathaniel* Esqr., Timo- 
thy,^ Nathaniel,'^ John^) was born in Milton, 25 June, 1696, and died 
at Union, Connecticut, 12 April, 1776. For more than half a cen- 



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tury he resided at Windham, where he was deacon of the First 
Church, and Judge of the County Courts from May, 1738, being 
re-commissioned annually, until 1772; he also represented Wind- 
ham in the General Court of Connecticut in 1739, 1744 and 1745. 
About 1750 he removed to what, on the old records, was known as 
the Union Lands — later the town of Union — then in Windham, 
but, after the formation of Tolland County in 1786 from various of 
the towns of Windham and Hartford counties, the most north-east- 
ern township in Tolland County. Here, in 1 759 and 1 763, he was se- 
lectman, and he appears with his wife and son Elisha on " a roll 
of members of the church in Union before the Rev. Ezra Horton 
was ordained pastor, 14 June, 1759." 

The qualities of mind which contributed to his continued and 
conscientious public service were reflected in his private life, to 
which no higher tribute can be paid than the re-publication of his 
" Counsels and Directions to his Children," which he began in 
1737, when just one half of his life had been silent. In these 
pages glimpses are obtained of the solicitude of the parent, the 
humility of the Christian, and the philanthropy of the man — the 
real ego stands out with strength and blessing. The " Counsels" 
was first printed shortly after the death of Mr. Wales, and a copy 
of this edition is still preserved in one branch of his descendants. 
In 1813 it was again printed, at Boston, as a tract of twenty-four 
pages, with an appendix, and "A Short Account of the Character of 
the Author," not in the first. And this last was reprinted in 1875, 
by the late Reverend William Howe AVhittemore, with some items 
of Wales genealogy, as an 8vo pamphlet of fifty-eight pages. It is 
from this third edition, that the copy which forms the appendix has, 
through the courtesy of Mr. Whittemore's descendants, been taken, 
and the Account of the Author therein contained, forms a valuable 
supplement to this brief sketch. 

Mr. Wales married at Windham, 20 October, 1719, Esther Smith, 
born at Windham, 24 November, 1702; died there 18 October, 
1737, daughter of Lieutenant Elisha Smith* of Medfield and Wind- 

*Lieutenant Elisha Smith died at Windham, Conn., 1 May, 1714, having married at 
Medfield, Mass., in 1701, Elizabeth Wheelock, who also died at Windham, 20 Jan., 1703. 
'She was a daughter of Captain Eleazer Wheelock, of Medfield, by his wife Elizabeth 
Fuller, and grand-daughter of the Rev. Kalph Wheelock, who, bred at Clare Hall, 
Cambridge, Eng., received there the degree of A.B. in 1626 and A.M. in 1631, came to 
Massachusetts 1637, settled first at Dedham, but removed to Medfield, of which he i8 
considered the founder, and died there 11 Jan., 1683, having represented Dedham in 
the General Court of the Colony 1639, 16 tO, and Medfield 16.53, 1662-4, 1666 and 1667. 

Seth Smith, son of Henry Smith one of the prominent Dedham and Medfield settlers, 
and father of Lieutenant Elisha Smith, died at Medfield in September, 1682. He mar- 
ried at Medfield, 27 Dec., 1660, Mary, daughter of John Thurston of Medfield, the lat- 



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ham. He married (2) at Windham, 13 October, 1741, Deborah 
Wood, born. 15 June, 1714, died at Union, 13 March, 1779. He 
was in his marriages particularly fortunate ; by his first wife he ac- 
quired considerable realty as well as personal estate; while the 
second wife is said to have been a woman of great patriotism and 
resolution, and the blessing invoked upon Abou Ben Adhem — 
" may his tribe increase " — fell bountifully upon Mr. Wales, as 
twenty children were the fruit of his two marriages, though the 
names of but eighteen are known. 

Children by first marriage recorded at Windham : 
i. Anna,« b. 17 Sept., 1720; d. 13 May, 1721. 

ii. Nathaniel, Esq., b. 20 Mar., 1722; d. 20 Oct., 1783; m. 15 Mar., 
1741, Mary Wetmore ; was deacon of the church at "Windham, and 
Judge of the County Courts ; no issue that survived, 
iii. Ebenezer, b. 10 Dec, 1724; d. 13 Apr., 1751. 
11. iv. Elisha, b. 10 Mar., 1728; d. 6 Apr., 1788; m. Mary Abbe. 

V. Capt. Solomon, b. 19 Nov., 1729; d. 20 Mar., 1805; m. (1) 3 Oct., 
1754, Lucy Strong, who died 29 Dec, 1772; m. (2) 2 Sept., 1773, 
Dorothy Perrin of "Woodstock. lu speaking of him, the History 
of Union says : " Probably no man has ever lived in Union who 
has been endowed with greater acuteness and strength of mind; " 
he was selectman 1775 to 1777; representative to the General As- 
sembly of Conn., 1781-1785, beside filling many other town and 
county offices. It is of him the story is related that, when two 
of his sons were responding to the Lexington Alarm, his step- 
mother said : " I would not send my boys where I dare not go 
myself; " and he, accepting the suggestion, entered the array, be-r 
came a captain and saw considerable service.* 
vi. Elizabeth, b. 20 Sept., 1730; d. April, 1763; m. 8 May, 1753, Jo- 
seph Ayers of Franklin, 
vii. Dr. Eleazer, b. 30 April, 1782, and baptized by the Rev. Thomas 
Clap, afterwards Rector of Yale College; d. Chester, Mass., 20 
Aug., 1794 ; m. 4 Dec, 1757, Sarah Norton, who died Otisco, Onon- 
daga Co., N. Y., 4 Feb., 1807. He was graduated at Yale in 
1753 ; studied medicine and later theology, and was licensed to 
preach bv the County Association of Ministers of Windham Co., 
in May, 1765 ; received the degree of M.A. from Dartmouth, in 
1779. 
viii. Seth, b. 12 Apr., 1734; d. 20 May, 1785; ra. 12 Mar., 1754, Jemima 
Newcomb; removed to Norwich, Conn., between 1759 and 1765, 
and, during the Rev. Mr. "Whitaker's absence, was at one time paid 
£9 for preaching the gospel, t 
Lx. Anne, b. 27 July, 1735; ra. Abijah Larned. 

ter of whom was baptized at Wrentham, Co. Suffolk, England, 13 Jan., 1601, and was 
with his wife, Margaret, a passenger for New England, in the ship Mary Anne of Yar- 
moutli, 10 M.ay, 1637. 

* The descendants of Capt. Solomon "Wales are treated of at some length in Law- 
son's History of Union. 



1> fCaulkins's History of Norwich, Conn., 465. 




Hon. Edmund Levi Bull Wales 



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X. Timothy, b. 9 Oct., 1737 ; d. Bolton, 4 Mar., 1808 ; m. 11 Nov., 1762. 
Sarah Loomis ; lived in Union, Hebron and Bolton, Conn. Of his 
five children, Dr. Boger^ Wales, b. 19 Jnly, 1708, ni. Harriett Bent- 
ley of Maryland and removed to Cape May County, N. J., -where 
he was recognized as the leading physician of his time, and hia 
descendants were among its most prominent citizens ; his son, Eli 
Bentley^ Wales, b. 10 July, 1798, was for many years one of the 
judges of the county, and another son, Edmund Levi Bull* Wales, 
b. 15 Mar., 1805, was also an eminent physician and surgeon and 
a Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors of New Jersey.* 

Children by second marriage, ouly the four eldest recorded at Windham : 

xi. Susanna, b. 9 July, 1742, m. (1) Nathan Babcock; (2) Abel. 

xii. Oliver, b. 23 Feb., 1744; d. 23 Mar., 181fi; ra. (1) Elizabeth, dau. 
of Dr. James Lawrence of South Brimfleld, Mass. ; (2) Ruth 

; removed to South Brimfleld in 176G. It was in honor of 

his son, James Lawrence'' Wales, that the town of South Brim- 
fleld changed its name to Wales. Another son, Capt. Oliver'^ Wales, 
d. 26 Sept., 1855, was the father of the late Salem Howe^ "Wales, 
of New York, who, b. at Wales, 4 Oct., 1825, m. Frances E. John- 
son, and had: 1. Clara^ Wales, m. Hon. Elihu Root. 2. Ed- 
ward Howe^ Wales. 

xiii. Esther, b. 8 Mar., 1746; d. 24 Oct., 1781; m. 25 Nov., 1774, John 
Bliss of Brimfleld, Mass. 

xiv. Deacon Elijah, b. 28 Jan., 1748 ; d. 2 Mar., 1826 ; m. 14 Apr., 1772, 
Rachel Nelson of South Brimfleld, who died 18 Oct., 1828; he 
removed to South Brimfleld, where he was deacon of the Baptist 
Church. 

XV. Irene, b. 3 Aug., 1750; d. 3 Dec, 1793; m. 16 Nov., 1775, as flrst 
wife, Nathaniel Sessions of Union. 

xvi. Lydia, b. 9 Mar., 1752; d. 21 Sept., 1773. 

xvii. Shubal, b. 6 Oct., 1754; named in his father's will, 6 May, 1772. 

xviii. Sarah, twin of above ; pre-deceased her father. 

11. Captain Elisha Wales* (Deacon Ebenezer, Esq.,^ Deacon Na- 
thaniel, Esq.,^ Timothy,^ Nathaniel,'^ John^) was born at Windham, 
10 March, 1728, and died at Union, 6 April, 1788. He probably 
accomiDanied his father to Union, and there spent most of the years 
until about 1760, when he appears to have removed to Ashford, an ad- 
joining town in Windham, on the post-road to Boston. He was one 
of the patentees of the township of Norwich, Vermont, the issuance 
of whose charter was the subject of so much coutrovesy between 
New York and New Hampshire. The town was organized at a 
meeting held at Mansfield, 21 August, 1761, most of the grantees 
being from that and adjoining towns in Windham County, and Dr. 
Eleazar Wales was chosen moderator of the meeting and proprietors' 
clerk. Deacon Ebenezer Wales, the father, Solomon Wales and 
Seth Wales, brothers, were also patentees, though it is doubtful if 
any of the family became, even temporarily, actual settlers. 

*This branch of the family has been amply treated of in Mr. Whittemore's Geneal- 
ogy of the Descendants of Timothy Wales of Connecticut. 



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In 1763 Elisha Wales was commissioned Captain of the Twelfth 
Company oth Regiment of Connecticut Colonial Forces, and there 
is a tradition in the family that he saw service in the French and 
Indian War in the campaign of 1745. 

The strained relations between the Colonies and the mother- 
country, precipitated by the Stamp Act, and the subsequent tax on 
tea, culminated in the retaliatory non-importation agreement, which, 
promulgated by the ardent patriots in Virginia, was adopted by the 
several colonies, and most heartly endorsed by the citizens of Wind- 
ham County, Ashford being especially earnest and emphatic in her 
support. On 14 December, 1769, a meeting was held at the latter 
place, when " Captains Elisha Wales, Benjamin Clark, Benjamin 
Russell, Elijah Whiton, Esq., and Benjamin Sumner, Esq., were 
appointed a Committee to correspond with other Committees in the 
County and elsewhere, to encourage and help forward manufacture 
and a spirit of industry in this government " ; and at the same meet- 
ing Captains Wales and Clark, together with Samuel Snow, were 
chosen " To see that no merchants, shop-keepers nor pedlars import, 
put off or trafick in Ashford any goods, wares or merchandize that 
are imported contrary to the Non-Importation Agreement." The 
sympathies of Captain Wales remained steadfastly with the cause of 
the Colonies, and in 1776 he was elected to represent Ashford in 
the General Assembly of Connecticut, and was present at all the 
sessions of that strenuous year. Shortly after this he returned to 
Union where he died. 

He married at Windham, 23 April, 1747, Mary Abbe, born at 
Windham, 10 September, 1726; daughter of John Abbe* of Wind- 
ham, by his second wife, Mary Palmer.f Under date of 12 April, 
1770, Captain Wales and Mary his wife conveyed two certain tracts 
of land described as part of the real estate which Mr. John Abbe 

* .Jolin Abbe, b. Windham, 20 April, 1691 ; d. there, 16 Jan., 1770 ; m. there, as second 
wife, 12 Mar., 1723, Mary Palmer. He -was a son of John Abbe of Wenham, Essex Co., 
Mass., who removed to Windham, in 1696, where he and his wife Hannah were con- 
stituted members of the Church, 4 Dec, 1700; he died 11 Dec, 1700, and his widow, 
Hannah, married (2) Jonathan Jennings of Windham, and died 8 March, 1724. John 
Abbe, father of the latter, was of Salem, Mass., in 1636, and later of the adjoining town 
of Wenham, where he died in 1689 and where his first wife, Marj', died 9 Sept., 1672. 

t Mary Palmer, wife of John Abbe, b. at Rehoboth, Mass., 17 Dec, 1691 ; died at 
Windham, 30 Nov., 1750. She was a daughter of Samuel Palmer, b. at Rehoboth, 12 
Nov., 1659; d. at Windham, 16 Nov., 1743; m. 13 Jan., 1680, Elizabeth Kingsley, who 
d. at Windham, 16 May, 1717; granddaughter of Jonah Palmer of Charlestown, Mass., 
and Rehoboth, who d. at the last-named town, 22 June, 1709, by his wife, Elizabeth 
Grissell of Charlestown, m. 3 May, 1655, and great-granddaughter of Walter Palmer, 
Esq., of Charlestown and Rehoboth, the latter of which he represented in the General 
Court of Plymouth Colony, 1645-1647, being the first deputy from that town; he re- 
moved to Stonington, Conn., where he died in 1662. 




Mary Watkins 
wife of elisha smith wales ( no. 12) 



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devised in his will to his four daughters : Eunice, wife of Jonathan 
Ginning, Tabitha, wife of Charles Ripley of Windham, Elizabeth, 
wife of Jesse Ward of Union, and Mary Wales. 
Children : 

i, Lieut. Ebenezer,^ m. at Ashford, 26 December, 1773, Anna Bab- 
cock ; was lieutenant in the 1st Regiment, Connecticut Line, from 
1778 until the close of the war, having entered the service in July, 
1775 ; was a member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati. 
12. ii. Elisha Smith, m. 7 March, 1775, Mary Watlcins. 

iii. Capt. Nathan, m. 22 Dec, 1771, Sarah, daughter of Ephraim Keyes 
of Ashford; was commissioned Captain in 1780, and served in 
State regiment "along the western coast"; removed after the 
war to Norwich, New Yorli. 

iv. Mary, m., as first wife, 28 Sept., 1767, John Keyes of Ashford, 
afterward General John Keyes of the Revolution. She died at 
Canajoharie, New Yorlj, 11 Sept., 1806, aud he, 13 April, 1824.* 

V. Hannah, bapt. 19 June, 1760. 

12. Elisha Smith Wales'' {Captain Elisha,^ Deacon Ebenezer, Esq.y^ 
Deacon Nathaniel,^ Esq., Timothy y^ Nathaniel,"^ John^), was born at 
Union, in 1752, and died at Sharon Center, Schoharie County, New 
York, in 1805. 

He married at Ashford, 7 March, 1775, Mary, daughter of Edward 
Watkins,t of that town, who joined him in a deed of 22 July, 1 776, 
conveying a one-third portion of " land in Ashford, adjoining the 
meeting-house, and lying east on the Bigelow River, lately that of 
their father, Edward Watkins deceased." 

Children : 
i. Sarah,8 b. at Ashford, 16 Jan., 1776 ; m. Noble Elard, of Arlington, 
Vermont. Issue: I. Martin^ Hard. 2. Truman Hard. 3. Levine 
Hard. 4. Dr. Hale Hard of Oswego, N. Y. 5. Mary Hard, d. 
unmarried. 6. Harriet Jane Hard, m. Joseph Rowland Coit, fa- 
ther of the Rev. Dr. Coit of Concord, New Hampshire. 

♦ For a complete record of the family see Keyes Genealogy. By Asa Keyes, 1880. 

t Edward Watkins, b. at Ashford, 3 April, 1723; d. there in March, 1760; m. there 
27 June, 1749, his cousin, Mary Watkins, by whom he had at least five children: 1 
Thadeus Watkins. 2 Benjamin Watkins. 3 Miriam Watkins, b. 26 February, 1753 ; d. 
7 August, 1811, married, as first wife, 5 Dec, 1782; Captain John Redington, who mar- 
ried secondly, her neice, Laura Wales. 4 Mary Watkins, m. Elisha Smith Wales, 
whose daughter, Laura Wales, married, as second wife, 5 Dec, 1811, Captain John 
Redington. 5 Mehitable Watkins, m. Daniel Carpenter. 

Edward Watkins was the son of Captain William Watkins, who was appointed en- 
sign of the militia company or train-band of Ashford, in May, 1737; lieutenant in 
October, 1741, and Captain of the Twelfth Company, Fifth Regiment of Connecticut 
Militia, 13 October, 1748; he also represented Ashford in the General Assembly of 
Connecticut during the years 1743-4-5-6-7-8-9, 1750-1-2; and died in 1773. His first 
wife, and the mother of his son, Edward, was Mehitable, daughter of Arthur Humph- 
rey of Woodstock, where he married 17 March, 1718. 



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ii. Miriam, b. 28 March, 1778 ; m. (1) Patrick Hale, by •whom there was 
no issue ; m. (2) Joshua Munroe of Shaftsbury, Vermont. Issue : 
Wales^ Monroe, 

ill. Clarissa, m. Simeon Cole, of Arlington; no issue. 

iv. Mary, bapt. 10 Sept., 1780; ra. (1) Joseph Alexander; m. (2) 

Sharp; m. (3), as first wife, Hon. Jedidiah Miller of Law- 

yersville. Issue. 1. Sarah^ Alexander, m. Demosthenes Lawyer, 
son of General Lawyer of Lawyersville, Schoharie Co., N. Y. 

2. Eliza Alexander, ra. Dr. John Lowe of Gilderland, N. Y. 3. 
Joseph^ Sharp of Sharon, N. Y. 

V. Almiran, died young. 

vi. Dr. Elisha Sahth, removed to Norwich, N. Y., where he died aged 

twenty-nine years. Issue : Frances^ Wales, m. Mr. Kandall of 

Norwich, N. Y. 
vii. Elmira, died unmarried at Lawyersville. 
viii. Laura, b. 28 June, 1787; d. Lawyersville, 22 July, 1818; m. (1) 

5 Dec, 1811, Capt. John Redington; m. (2) 20 March, 1845, Hon. 

Jedidiah Miller of Lawyersville. 
ix. RowENA, m. Dr. Henry Mitchell, of Norwich, Member of Congress 

during President Jackson's administration, who died, 12 Jan., 

1858. Issue: 1. Maria^ Mitchell. 2. Catharine Mitchell, d. y. 

3. Harriet Mitchell. 4. Mary Mitchell, ra. Sarauel Parke of Nor- 
wich. 5. Jane Mitchell. 6. Dr. Charles Mitchell. 7. John 
Mitchell. 





Lalka Wales 
wife of captain john redington ( no. i4) 



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APPENDIX. 



THE 



Counsels and Directions 



OF 



EBENEZER WALES Esq. 



TO HIS 



CHILDREN. 



Published from the Author's Manuscript 

found among his papers 

after his death. 



To which is prefixed, a short Account of the 
Character of the Author. 



BOSTON: 

Printed and sold at Nathaniel Coverly, Jun., 

Corner of Theatre Alley, 1813. 



A SHORT ACCOUNT 

OF THE 

CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR. 



Ebenezer Wales, Esq. was born in the year 1696, at Milton, in the 
Province of the Massachusetts Bay. His parents were eminent for piety 
and godliness ; by which means he was favored with a religious education 
in his youth, which he esteemed among the greatest blessings of his life. 
He was for a great number of years a Justice of the Peace, which office 
he discharged with fidelity and uprightness ; just and impartial in the 
administration of justice. He shewed that the coercive force of the law 
was for the lawless and disobedient. He bore not the sword of justice in 
vain, but was a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to such as do well. But 
what was most distinguishing in him, was his apparently sincere and un- 
feigned piety. In the early stages of his life, it pleased a sovereign God 
to call him, in a remarkable manner, out of darkness into marvellous light, 
and to cause him to feel the power and efficacy of divine grace upon his 
heart. From which time, all that have had the happiness of being ac- 
quainted with him must acknowledge he has been one of the brightest 
ornaments of the religion of Jesus ; exemplifying religion in his life and 
conversation. He not only professed that faith which was justifying and 
saving, but evidenced hia faith by his works. The holy scriptures were the 
grounds of his faith and the rule of his conduct. He took the word of God 
for his counseller at all times ; which word dwelt in him richly ; and he 
had a peculiar faculty of enriching others with it with whom he conversed. 
The sacred writings were his chief study, and esteemed by him as the 
choicest treasure, a delightful field, full of the most delicious fruits. He 
had a happy talent for expounding the scriptures, which he generally 
practised in his family, from day to day. Religion in him was a divine 
principle which flamed out in the life. It was his concern to walk in all the 
commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. He steadly attended 
on the public worship, so long as health and strength would permit. He 
was a faithful hearer of the word, and able to repeat the substance of the 
discourses, which he used generally to do for the benefit of his family. On 
communion days, it was evident to those who had a relish for the religion 
of the gospel, that he had been with Jesus. Strict and examplary on the 
Sabbath, and appeared really to remember, and keep it holy. A careful 



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observer of the various providences of God, and had a peculiar gift in 
spiritualizing and drawing divine instruction from every occurrence. In 
prayer, he drew near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as a 
child to a father, able and ready to help. He was a friend to the relig- 
ious constitution of the colony, and to the ministers of the gospel ; those 
who were acquainted with him highly esteemed him. He lived in the daily 
exercise of a strong and lively faith in the promises of the gospel, which 
raised him above the world, and the fears of death. He was laborious 
in his calling, which was the labour of the hand; yet he enriched his 
mind with knowledge human and divine, especially did he excel in divine 
knowledge ; was well able to give the reason of his believing and embracing 
religion ; and was masterly in confuting an enthusiastic spirit. As head 
of a family he was a kind husband, and affectionate father, and one that 
ruled well in his own house. An obliging neighbor, a faithful friend, and 
charitable to the industrious poor. In a word, he was sober, just and tem- 
perate, a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men. He maintained his 
hope steadfast to the end, and longed for the time that he should be deliv- 
ered from this body of death. His bodily distress unfitted him in a great 
measure for converse with his friends, in his last hours ; though he retained 
the exercise of his reason to the last expiring moment. Being asked the 
day before he died, whether death did not appear very near, " Oh no," he 
replied, " a great way off, too far, I long to have the time come." His dis- 
orders were of such kind as made company a great interruption, and it was 
with difficulty he was able to speak. Being asked whether his children 
who lived remote should be sent for, he replied,, " It cannot be done with 
conveniency, and they must be content with what I have already said." 
He died at Union, on the 12th of April, A.D., 1774, in the 78th year of his 
age ; leaving behind a sorrowful widow, and fifteen children, to lament his 
death; the next day his remains were carried to the place of public wor- 
ship, where an honorable character was given him, as a man of worth and 
piety, after which he was conveyed to the grave, followed by eleven of his 
children (one being confined at home with sickness, and three othei's too 
remote for seasonable notice), together with a great concourse of people. 
He had twenty children, viz. eleven by his first wife, nine by his second, 
now his widow, seventy-eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. 
[June 8th 1774]. 



COUNSELS, &G. 



December 13, 1737. 

The following counsels and directions are directed to my children ; and 
your father intends and desires they may come to you, with the autliority 
of a father, and with a great desire for your good, both for your bodies and 
souls. And I charge every one of you to consider them well, as you will 
answer for your neglect and refusal to hearken to and practice my advice, 
so far as it agrees with God's word, at the judgment seat of Christ. 

I know that faith and repentance are the two great ingredients of reli- 
gion, and the foundation of it in the soul. To have a true sense of our sin 
and impotency, and to receive Christ as our Prophet, Priest and King, con- 
tains in it almost all true religion. But this you are so often taught from 
your bible, catechism, and the pulpit, that I shall not insist so much on these 
things, as on some of the practical parts of religion. And for your help 
herein, I shall direct you to such a way, as I have found very profitable 
to me. But this I would first lay down for your consideration, that you 
are made and continued in being, to serve and glorify God. All your time 
and talents are to be improved that way. There is no abating any thing 
of this ; and this rule, I shall much improve in the following directions. 
Well then your time is God's, and I advise you to spend it diligently in his 
service and for his glory, and spend as much of your time as you can spare 
from your common business, in meditation ; and when you meditate, choose 
some particular subject, and keep your minds close upon it. I have found 
this way has afforded me new ideas, that I never thought of before, and 
turned my mind much more, to the duty meditated on, and against the sin 
reasoned against. And here 1 would hint in a short way, on some heads, 
or subjects for you to fix on, hoping you will carry your thoughts much 
further than I shall here write. 

1. Reason for diligence, both of your bodies and minds, viz. about some- 
thing for the service and glory of God ; for this, viz. the service of God and 
his glory, I shall take in, in all my following directions : but shall not 
always mention them. Also reason against idleness. The good things of 
this life are necessary for our comfort here, and humane knowledge necessary 
to make us useful in our day, and the knowledge of God needful to prepare 
us for the enjoyment of Him hereafter. And how will you obtain these 



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tilings ? they are of great importance. Why, the most likely way to obtain 
them, is by a diligent improvement of our bodies and minds to get them. 
And this is the way to have God's blessing on our endeavours to obtain 
them. Consider my children, do not you sometimes take great pains for 
mere trifles ? Shall God place you, as rational creatures, amidst all these 
great works of creation, providence, and that of redemption, and you not 
dilligent and active in serving and glorifying him ? how will you answer 
it to him ? is there not benefits enough to be obtained to pay you for your 
time and pains ? but then on the contrary, what jjrofit is there in a lazy or 
idle life ? my children, I cannot think of any pleasure or profit in it worth 
naming. I verily believe a lazy person is generally wished out of the 
world ; and if that be a pleasure then they have it. But they seem to have 
no friends. And if they are not lazy, but active for sin, and so in my sense 
idle, yet their activeness prepares them for, and hurries them down to hell. 

2. Reasons for good language, and against bad. A clean, modest, and 
mannerly way of speaking, will much recommend you to mankind ; your 
company will be acceptable to almost every person ; and there is a great 
deal of religion contained in a modest and mannerly way of speaking, and a 
great deal of profit and pleasure even in this life. It will much engage men 
in our favor. But on the contrary, a debauched and unmannerly way of 
speaking cannot please any but the debauched part of mankind ; and they 
will not esteem you the better for it in reality. If they have any matter 
of weight they submit that to other sort of men. Indeed you will please 
the devil by bad talk ; and mightily fit yourselves for his company eter- 
nally. My children, is not a good word spoken with as much, ease as a bad 
one : and will not every good end be as well attained by it ? what then 
should move you to debauch talk ? or vain swearing or cursing, or any re 
vilings or bad wishes ? what good do they do you ? I am assured they do 
you and others, much hurt. I have often wondered how this sin came to 
be practiced even by sinners. There is no interest served by it ? so there 
seemeth no temptation to it ; no reasonable pleasure in it, no honor or 
profit by it. How comes it to be so fashionable then ; unless because it is 
a sin ; this is the best reason I can give for it. Oh miserable reason indeed 
Oh forsake such an unreasonable practice, or rather never begin it. And 
use your tongues in God's service, and to praise and glorify Him. 

3. Reasons for truth and honesty, and against falsehood and dishonesty. 
I am of opinion, that truth and honesty always go together ; for an honest 
man is a man of truth, and every dishonest man is in some sense a liar. 
Every man of truth and honesty hath a mighty advantage, and pleasure 
attends these excellent things : for a man that lives in the upright practice 
of them, will make it known by his common conduct, and such a person 
will be trusted by any man. Every man will esteem his property safe in 
the hands of such a man, and he may be trusted often to his own advantage. 



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He is under great advantage to secure his interest and character ; for he 
may be believed at all times ; that he speaks the true sentiments of his 
mind. And surely his pleasure must be equal to the profit, his unswayed 
uprightness makes him appear bold and free in all company and times. 
But on the contrary, a man of falsehood and dishonesty hath not the afore- 
said advantages nor pleasures ; for he will be suspected by every-body. If 
he be rich, they will be apt to wish Mm poor ; and if he be poor he will 
not be pitied nor helped. And it will render him very much useless among 
mankind. Now I suppose that man's happiness in this life very much 
consists in being acceptable to his fellow men : and lying and cheating very 
much prevent that. But it is also very foolish for a man that pretends to 
a future happiness, to steal or cheat, because he that wrongeth his neighbor 
knowingly, must always pay back again, and make good all damages, if 
he is able, or he cannot get to heaven, which makes me wonder that any 
who intend to go to heaven, should fall into this sin : and here to give you 
one rule, to help you against being prejudiced in your own favour, in trad- 
ing or bargaining : Get a love to truth and justice above gain, and that will 
govern your minds more to act truth than to get gain. 

4. Reasons for love and peace, and against rash anger. There is a rational 
pleasure in love and peace. To keep the love of another Avho is on the 
contrary side of our interest, gives us the best advantage to convince him 
if he be in the wrong. And if we are in the wrong, we are the more likely 
to be convinced by him, and you should be more pleased to get the truth 
established, than to get the mastery, or your supposed interest or opinion 
vindicated. But then it must be more of a just pleasure and lasting profit, 
to have others' love and goodwill for us, and their interest ready to help 
us, than to have them against us. 

Well, the best way to obtain it is to be loving and kind ourselves ; and 
it is a pleasant sight to see brothers and sisters live together in love. And 
in order to live so, the elder should bear with the childish notions of the 
younger, and not suddenly resent. They should try to make them as easy 
as possible, and so set them an example of love themselves ; for my part, 
I have reason to lament that I have not set a better example of love my- 
self, but have been too froward, and especially too hurrying about my 
labour. But I can appeal to you that latterly I have lived more in the 
exercise of love, but yet would maintam my government, and hope I shall 
ever do so. But do you follow me only wherein I have followed Christ. 
But then what profit or pleasure can there be in rash anger ? Profit there 
can be none, for every case may be carried on better without than with it. 
If we keep of a peaceable mind we know we can manage a cause the better 
for it. And as to pleasure there is none, unless it be in feeling angry. 
And how this disorders the mind, we by our experience know. And it 
must be a more rational pleasure to subdue than hidulge it. 



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5. Reasons of humility ; and against ijride. Humility is a great advan- 
tage in tliis life ; it is the best way to obtain honour among men. If a 
man be capable of liublic service, his humility will fit him for it, and ordi- 
narily lead him to it. And if he gets it he will not be in danger of envy. 
If he is poor and not honorable, he will not be despised. Almost all men 
will delight to shew him respect. Every one will speak well of the humble 
man ; their company will be acceptable to every body, and it will yield 
them a great deal of peace. If any ill-treat them, they are not apt to re- 
sent it ; if others are angry and froward, they are calm and easy, and they 
command the most respect, according to their dignity, of any men in the 
world, and are most reconciled to their circumstances ; if honorable, not 
lifted up ; if poor, not much cast down ; on the contrary, pride is the great- 
est trouble and vexation to men. To give pride his due, he is the hardest 
master and the greatest cheat and liar of any whatsoever. I think it may 
truly be said of pride, he is worse to men than the devil himself. Pride 
leads men a dreadful jaunt ; and promises large pay, but never performs 
his promise ; gives them a dreadful fatigue, and cheats them of all their 
expectation. From pride men are mightly stirred up after honor ; but 
pride puts men on the direct way to miss of it. They want to be admired, 
bat are. likely to miss of that too ; but will most certainly get enough of 
the contrary. Pride sets men to get riches, and promises great profit and 
pleasure therein, but fails in the performance. It cheated our first parents 
and so it doth all their race. It is an hateful sin ; it takes men the furthest 
from God, and fi'om the favour of men. And it appears to me to be the 
spring from whence almost all other sins flow. 

6. And for your help in the well improvement of your thoughts, study 
something of philosophy, or law, or history, or geography, and all of them 
if your genius leads you to it. And if you rightly improve the knowledge 
you may get by those studies, it will mightily help you in religion, or any 
other study you may find most serviceable to those two great ends, to best 
fit you to do service for God in this world, and to enjoy him in the world to 
come. But I shall direct j^ou to a more divine and spiritual way of living. 

First, use your diligence in some lawful calling, which the providence of 
God seems most to point out to you ; and having used your reason and dili- 
gence in the best manner you can, commit the event of all your business to 
God, to order and determine as he pleases ; not only because you cannot help 
it, but because he governs best, and that you choose God should order your 
affairs for you. And this do with great contentment and submission, and 
when you find an evidence in your souls, that your business is to wait on God 
all the day long, and every day, and also see that in his word he hath promised 
all things shall work for the good of such as wait on him : and believe the wis- 
dom and goodness of God's government, this will give you contentment under 
all circumstances of life. And if you do not commit the ordering of the affairs 



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of this life to God, I cannot believe you do commit the concerns of your 
souls to him. You must go to God by faith in the promises, and in the 
name of Christ, and on account of the purchase Christ liath made for sin- 
ners by his sufferings; and with a sense of your own vileness : sending to 
God the sincere desires of your hearts for everything you want for time 
and eternity. And receive every good thing spiritual and temporal, as com- 
ing from God through the merits of Christ, and every affliction as ordered 
to you for your good. And observe as you pray, so I believe you will live, 
and God will do for you. If you pray only because it is customary or for 
fear of hell, or for any sinister end, so I believe you will live, and accord- 
ingly so God will deal with you. But if you pray with the sincere desires 
of your souls, and depend on the free grace of God in and througli the 
merits of Christ ; I say if you so pray, so I believe you will generally live ; 
and so as you pray and live, I believe God will deal out of his favors to 
you, both spiritual and temporal. And now if you would know when you 
thus pray, I would ask, do you thus wait on God? for you see I have in 
my thoughts made them inseparable. But then I would ask, do you love 
God with all your heart, soul, might and strength ? and if you ask me how 
you shall know when you have such a love to God, I answer, first I shall 
describe such a love, and the springs from whence a true love to God flows. 
And I shall call such a love to God, a divine love hereafter in describing 
of it. Now love in general I suppose is a passion of the soul going out to 
some object as good, and capable of affording some happiness, with desires 
of, and endeavors after the enjoyment of it ; but as to the spring of a love 
not divine, such as love to our food, drink, sleej), &c., I suppose it flows 
from the bodily appetite : they being suited to make the body easy, and so 
afford some happiness to us. We love, desire, and endeavor to get them 
because of the ease and happiness they give us. All such love seems to 
me to spring from the love we have of gratifying the appetites of the body : 
seeing the objects have something in them fitted to satisfy our said appe- 
tites ; but these appetites bear no part in a divine love. I shall now en- 
deavor to show you the springs of a divine love ; I own good men love 
God for the good things of this life, and so may wicked men too ; and if 
they love God only because they recieve such things from him, it hath no 
part of a divine love in it, such a love goeth out vehemently inflamed by 
the appetites of the body, but so doth not a divine love, but springs from a 
light let into the soul, of the excellency of God's perfections, of the excel- 
lent, unchangeable and independent goodness in them, every way fitted to 
fill the soul with everlasting happiness, and when the soul finds a steady 
choice of conforming to God in holiness and purity, and that it cannot enjoy 
quiet, unless it can regulate the appetites of the body, and dispositions of 
the mind in a fitness to what it discovers in the perfections of God, I think 
it is because God hath put into the soul such a divine principle that hath 



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eiicli a sameness with the holiness and immutable perfections of God, that 
it cannot content itself, nnless it enjoys more and more of God, and then 
sin of course will grow more hateful ; now I think when this is the case the 
80ul loves God with all the heart, &c., it doth not consist so much in sensi- 
ble affections going out as a steady choice, as before described, for the 
affections are often inflamed by the appetites of the body, and rise and 
fall as said appetites rise or lower, and so are unsteady. The affections set 
on work by the inclinations, may be at sometimes more vehement for en- 
joyment than those that go aright after the enjoyment of God, but never 
so steady. Therefore it appears to me, that such a steady choice as before 
described, will determine where the heart is and where its treasure is, this 
choice supposeth endeavours to live according to such a choice. There 
are other stronger evidences of a true love to God, but I mention this as 
such an evidence of true love to God as is one of the weakest, but yet true. 
8. And here I would charge you all not to neglect secret prayer, and 
not to put off repentance till hereafter, but make a present business of re- 
ligion, and especially you that are young, remember your creator in the 
time of your youth. 



January 31, 1753. 
On a journey from Hartford, as I passed by a burying place in the 
woods in Stafford, I had the following meditations on the road. Here I 
thought was a number buried whose faces I never saw, nor should see un- 
til the judgment day. Upon which I recollected in my mind, my relations 
whom I loved that were dead, how they would all appear at that great day 
and there be judged according to their various ages and circumstances, and 
that with righteous Judgment ; which much affected my mind. Then 
came on the consideration of my own trial at that great day ; ;and here I 
suj^posed myself then on my trial before my great Judge, whose eyes are 
as a flame of fire, and the book of God opened for me to be judged out of 
those things written therein : and that the evidences against me were called . 
And first, were called my companions I was most intimate with when I 
was young ; and they evidenced that I was a wild and vain youth, much 
addicted to vain jestings and profanations of the Lord's day, and other 
very idle talk on other days. Then my brothers and sisters were called ; 
and they said I many times quarrelled unjustly with them, and was a 
means of making them quarrel, and that I often played on the Sabbath 
day. Then my father and mother gave their evidence that I lived a vain 
life, and would run often into wicked company, that they sat before me 
the terrors of God's law and danger of hell, exhorted me to secret prayer 
and other duties, but that I little regarded their counsels. My wives gave 
their evidence that I was not kind enough to them in many respects, he 
was too sour in his temper, and did not take pains enough to stir them up 



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to their duty, by counsel and example. My children were called, and said 
he was not tender enough of them, too hurrying about their labour, and 
did not take jjains enough to restrain them from sin and to put them in 
mind of their duty. 

My neighbors evidenced, that in many respects he failed in acts of kind- 
ness, and sometimes was too rash in words and actions. Then my mother- 
in-law was called, and she said he did not exercise love and tenderness 
enough to her in old age. Then my conscience was required to speak 
the truth, and that gave in a dreadful account of wicked thoughts, words 
and actions all my life long, too many to name, but especially of pride, 
dullness in duty, and vain and worldly thoughts on the Sabbath day, and in 
time of duty. Upon which Satan appeared and said, by the law he ought 
to die ; for it is written, every soul that sins shall die. I will take him, 
and bind him hand and foot, and carry him into outer darkness. Stay, 
said the Judge, is there none that can say anything in favour of him ? 
then came the Holy Spirit and said, true it is, all that has been said against 
him is true. He lived a vain wicked life till he entered his one and twen- 
tieth year, and all my strivings with him were to little purpose, though 
they kept him to a course of secret prayers, and some resolutions of amend- 
ment of life ; but he all the while thought he had power to convert him- 
self, and in the twentieth year of his age set a time to do it, and tried to 
convert himself, but did not know where to begin such a work ; but he 
was not willing to promise to forsake sin, and wished he might be sick, 
which he thought would make him promise to leave sin and lead a new 
life ; then I sent sickness on him, but he would not make any promise to 
reform ; and when I recovered him to health, he said he should not be sick 
again for a great while, and would now go on in sin with pleasure. 

I then seized his mind with melancholy, and then he considered his dan- 
ger, and cried night and day to God for mercy, and see that he had no 
power to convert himself ; but I let him be in such terror for four or five 
months, that wasted his flesh and spirits, and he would often get alone and 
spent much time in strong cries at the throne of grace ; then I sent his 
own mother to him vf ith a dream, which made him believe he should die in 
nine days ; and he knew he should go to hell if he died then ; then he re- 
tired alone in the night following, and there spent much time in mourning 
for sin, and crying for mercy ; then I revealed Christ to him as a fit Sa- 
viour, and he by faith and love embraced the Saviour with all his heart 
and soul, and I filled him with joy that made him long to depart and be 
with Christ ; and since all his life in general, sin hath been his greatest 
burden ; it hath been his delight to do the will of God, and he has tried 
to do his duty to God, his neighbor and himself ; he hath been a true 
mourner for sin, and hath delighted in the law of God. The ministering 
angels then spake and said, that when sin was too hard for him he would 



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often cry mightily to God for help, and plead the merits of Christ's blood 
and intercession with God, that he would send him help against sin and 
enable him to do the will of God, and his request would often be, that God 
would take away all his pride and unbelief, and give him faith, and a hum- 
ble make, and a patient, thankful frame of mind, and God heard him and 
often sent us to help him, and comfort him, and he would rejoice at our as- 
sistance and give God the praise. God many times heard him, and sealed 
to him the pardon of his sin, and gave the evidences of his Sonship, and 
of eternal life. Then 1 supposed my Judge to turn to me and say " Come 
you blessed of my Father, you have been faithful in a few things, I will 
make you ruler of many things, enter into the Joy of your Lord." Oh ! 
if this should be my case, what joy must then fill my soul ? I then felt 
almost impatient to think of staying here any longer. My thoughts were 
so much engaged for about four miles travel, that I hardly knew anything 
about how I went along. 

Now my children, if you are not thus prepared to meet your Judge, 
how dreadful is your case ? you all know you must die, and if death meets 
you in your sin, what will you do, when you are to take your final leave of 
the world and of all your pleasure in the world, and in sin, and have an 
eternity before you, and must enter thereinto, and have no interest in 
Christ ! which way will you turn to find comfort ? will you turn to your 
vain companions ? to see if they will not afford you comfort ? alas ! they, 
if present when you are dying, may mourn over you, but they cannot af- 
ford you any relief at death ; and at judgment they will curse you for lead- 
ing them to hell ! will you turn to Satan who hath flattered you along in 
sin? now alas! he will appear a most dreadful tormenter. Will you look 
to your parents for help in this dreadful hour of distress ? will they not 
tell you that you did not hearken to their counsels, but neglected them, and 
now you must eat the fruit of your doings ? will you turn to Christ, who 
will be your judge, to seek help of him, in that dreadful and dark day ? 
and will not Christ say to you, when you could take your pleasure in sin, 
you regarded none of my calls or offers of mercy, and stifled the strivings 
of my spirit ? and now I, as a sin revenging Judge, will sentence you to 
eternal misery. Oh my childran, if this should be your case, what horror 
of soul must you then be in and if you are now in your sins, and have 
never closed with Christ by faith and love, this may be your case. This is 
certain, that you and I must appear at the day of judgment, to be judged 
by Christ : and if you now in time refuse to hearken to God and Christ, 
in the threatnings and promises of his word, and strivings of his spirit, 
and ministrations of his word, and the counsels of your parents, what will 
you answer in that day ? if you in time have heai'kened more to the devil 
than to Christ and his spirit ; more to your sins and sinful companions than 
to your father, Oh dreadful to you will your meeting me then be, if this 



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should be your case. K these lines therefore should fall under your eye, 
when I am dead, consider them well ; they were designed to put you in 
mind of them, when I can no more urge them upon you, by being present 
with you. How can I think of your being separated from Christ, and 
from me to all eternity ? I hope to dwell with Christ eternally ; will you 
then take the road to hell to dwell with the devil ? dreadful separation ! 



November 30, 1755. 

The following question and answer is chiefly collected from the Spec- 
tator, Vol. VIII. 

Quest. Which requires the most, or is ordinarily attended with the 
greatest pain and trouble, a life of virtue or vice ? 

Answ. As for vice, the debasement of reason, the pangs of expectations, 
the disappointments in possession, the stings of remorse, the vanities and 
vexations attending even the most refined delights, that make up this busi- 
ness of life, render it so silly and uncomfortable, that no man is thought 
wise till he has got over it, or happy but in proportion as he has cleared 
himself from it. The sum is, great labour is certain, in both vice and vir- 
tue ; and the same if not more labour attends vice than virtue ; and here 
is left us an easy choice, whether, with the strength we are master of, we 
will purchase happiness or misery ? 

Another taken from the same Spectator. 

The happiness of this world, proceeds from the suppression of our de- 
sires, but in the next world, from the gratifications of them. 



March 27, 1757, in the 61st year of my Life. 
When I consider the counsels I have given you, my children, and my 
forwardness to discourse on religion, it makes me some afraid you will 
think I have no fears of myself, nor much difficulty with my sins and temp- 
tations, and least your meeting with fears and sins, and temptations, you 
may suppose I did not meet with, might be some discouragement to you 
in a religious life ; I here give you the following account of my warfare in 
religion. And it is a continued war I am engaged in : sometimes pride, 
sometimes unbelief, slothfulness in duty, and overlove to the world, un- 
charitableness towards my fellow-men and fellow-christians, unthankf ulness, 
many appetites of the body, sometimes one, and sometimes several of them 
beset me every day I live ; and many times govern in me in a sad manner. 
I know I make miserable work in religion. I know I do not take pains 
enough with you ; and my example before you is not as it ought to be, but 
be persuaded to shun all that you see wrong in my conduct. But then I 
can tell you, that my sins are not chosen but my burden. I long to be more 
sanctified and holy. And as to my fears about the state of my soul they are 



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many, and tliey ai'ise from such things as these : sometimes I find my affec- 
tions flow easily, it may be on reading or hearing of some good man's actions 
or sufferings, when I cannot see anything of love to God or religion in me 
that moves them. Well, when I contemplate the mercy of God, or the suffer- 
ings of Christ, and my affections are much moved, I often fear that in the last 
instance, they are moved only from natural sympathy, as they are in the for- 
mer. And again, when my meditations on God and Christ and religion 
are greatly pleasant to me, and seem to make me long after more knowledge 
of God, and conformity to him in holiness ; often when my thoughts have 
been greatly stretched towards God, with new and pleasing ideas, it then 
comes into my mind that I will tell such a friend of my discoveries, and he 
will be pleased with them and me ; which makes me then fear, my pleasure 
in God and religion is only from pride and my own applause. 

Again, I find such a love to the world sometimes prevailing, that makes 
me suspect it is inconsistent with a true love to God or my neio-hbor. 
Again, I find many times such a dullness in duty, as I fear inconsistent 
with a prevailing love to, and delight in God. 

Again, I find such a want of trust in God, through the merits of Christ, 
with such a satisfaction of soul and rest of mind, as makes me afraid I have 
not saving faith. But to give you truly what I think of my condition, I 
expect to be happy with God in the life to come. And I believe that with- 
in five years past, when my fears most prevailed, that then my hopes were 
stronger than my fears, whether true or no ; for, if I am not mistaken, the 
mercies I receive, the afilictions I undergo, the fears I endure, nay, and 
the sins I am guilty of, do make me more in earnest after holiness of heart 
and life, and to have God my only portion. 



July 1, 1759, in the 63rd year of my Life. 
I shall add to the above account of my life, how I have of late lived. 
It seems to me that I live towards God very much as a little child lives ; a 
child depends on his parents for all his nourishment and rest, and when it 
wants, it goes to his parents for it, expects it nowhere else ; and so it seems 
to me, I in some measure live towards God. I think I go to God for his 
blessing on my common affairs, not only in my secret and family prayers, 
but more particularly when I take a book to read, I lift up my heart to 
God to bless it, when I go to a neighbour's house for conversation, I ask 
God to enable me either to do or receive good. If I meet a man I expect 
some conversation with, my heart is lifted to God in such like desires ; if 
I go a journey, or am called to judge or act in a case that appears to me 
difficult, then if I have time, I devote some short space of time for prayer, 
and I have so practiced the latter part of my life, that it seems natural to 
run to God for everything, and receive everything from him, and in a way 
of asking as a child doth of his parents. But then, as a child has many 



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froward turns, so have I, and anxious fears ; but I only mean to point out 
the general temper of my mind. You cannot Init see by what I have wrote, 
that my combat hath been more with pride than with any other, if not 
with all other sins. But of late I have met with the most diificulty to re- 
joice at my neighbour's being prospered, either in riches or honor, even 
more than I am, which raises fears in my mind that I love the world more 
than God. So that in God gives me help as to this, I expect to be attacked 
with something else. So that my life is a continual war, attended with 
hopes and fears. But then as to my prayers, God gives me more freedom 
at the throne of grace than 1 used to have. My children, God enables me 
to come to him as a suitor unworthy of any help, with such admiration of 
the wonderful work of redemption by Christ, and the great promises in 
God's word, that commonly my heart is lifted up with expectations of re- 
ceiving ; and great hath been God's answer of prayers to me. And, my 
having my mind in the duty of prayer, more engaged and intent than for- 
merly, I think is certain, especially in secret, and also in social prayers too. 
But I would not be understood that I have no wandering thoughts, either in 
secret or social prayer, no by no means ; I have now such wanderings some- 
times in secret prayers as makes me astonished ; and sometimes to break 
off for a little time, as almost afraid to speak any more to God, not break 
off so as wholly to neglect any one season of prayer, but only a small stop. 
In what I have here written, if there be anything that may be an help to 
any of you, I shall, in some measure, attain my end if you improve it aright. 
And what I have wrote that is worth minding, I desire some one of you to 
transcribe, leaving out what is not worth regarding ; for I have not tried 
to be very correct, and let every one that has a mind for it have my advice, 
as coming from their father so earnestly desiring to meet you all in heaven. 
And here I would break off with adoration and praise to God for redeeming 
love to poor sinners through Christ, that God should ransom our lives from 
destruction, and crown us with loving kindness. Oh, who can enough 
adore free grace ! 



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Tlie following was found on a loose paper, but in the hand-writing of 
the author, with his name inscribed. It was doubtless designed for the 
perusal and instruction of his family, and therefore it is thought proper to 
add it by way of Appendix. This religious exercise, it seems, happened 
in the seventy-fifth year of his age, occasioned by the gratitude of a friend 
of his, to whom he had lent a small sum of money. 



APPENDIX. 

June 6th, 1771. 

Some time last May, I lent Mr. H two dollars ; he took them, said 

but a few words, but spake in a very feeling manner, as it 'then appeared 
to me. Being very busy, I took but little notice of it. The evening fol- 
lowing, as I was sitting by my fire, it came to mind, in what a grateful 

manner Mr. H. expressed himself when I let him have the dollars. 

I then asked myself what hurt it did me, as I did not want them, nor likely 
to before he would return them. How then could any gratitude be due to 
me? it might be some small kindness to him, but no damage to me. Yet 
he had such a sense of my kindness for which, it seemed, I did not deserve 
any thanks. And did he have such a sense of so small a kindness, when I 
did myself no hurt ? and have I treated what Christ has done for me in 
the same manner ? but have I received no more benefit by what Christ has 

done for me, than Mr. H by what he received of me, for which he 

was so thankful ? Oh yes indeed, I have received much more. Why, 
what have I received by Christ's kindness to me ? why, I was going to 
post-haste to hell, and no power to stop myself, did not see my danger, and 
never asked for help, when he undertook for me. Why, what do I mean 
by hell ? why, I must have been delivered to devils to be tormented soul 
and body, in the most di'eadful manner, without any to pity or help me, 
and that eternally. And did Christ undertake to prevent my suffering, 
and was he able to do it ? why yes, and has answered all demands against 
me ; that if I will accept of what he has done, the devil can have no power 
to torment, but I shall be delivered from him forever. Well, what grati- 
tude and thankfulness have I returned to Christ for what he has done for 
me ? why, 1 have treated it in the most ungrateful manner, as if it was not 
worth minding or receiving. Well, did Christ suffer any more to obtain 
my deliverence from hell, than I did by lending the dollars ? why, yes, I 
suffered none by lending the money, but Christ who made the world, con- 
descended to take such a body with all its infirmities, sin only excepted, as 
mine which was so condemned to hell, and went through all the sufferings, 



79 

that devils and wicked men could lay on him ; and all for my dclivearnce 

from hell and damnation. And yet I not so thankful as Mr. II for 

said money. Oh astonishing ! what sha!l I think of myself ? I would la- 
ment my ingratitude to Christ for what he hath done for me. But is this 
all that Christ has done for me, viz. delivering me from hell whicli I so 
deserved ? no, he hath purchased everlasting happiness, and offers it freely 
for my acceptance. This is what he hath done for me also, and ordered 
an abundance of means to engage me to esca^De hell, and obtain everlast- 
ing happiness. And I have treated all as if not worth receiving ! Oh, I 
am almost overcome when I consider what Christ has done for me, and 
how ungrateful I have been! with whom shall I compare myself? the 
devil ? no, he is not bad enough to picture my conduct by, he never had 
such mercy offered him, and so could not be guilty of such ingratitude as I 
have been guilty of. My thoughts were never carried on this subject in 
such a striking manner before, and that, which led them to it as the instru- 
ment, was not my own actions, but the gratitude of Mr. H .* 

*The reasons of his lending the money, together with the name of the person to 
whom he lent it, were inserted by the Author in his introduction to the above account; 
but not being material, it was thought advisable, for some reasons, to omit them in the 
publication, inserting the first letter only of the person's surname. 



ON DEATH. 



Death ! who are you ? tliat in such ghastly form doth now appear ; 

And strikes my mind with so much pain and dreadful fear. 

Begone, you tyrant, full of dreadful rage and power, 

And don't go on to murder with such rage no more. 

Have you slain all from Adam, to this day, 

And turn'd them out of life, to dust and clay ? 

And won't this satisfy, and quiet all your rage ? 

But now to kill me dead, you are so much engag'd ! 

Well, take this body then, and carry it to the grave, 

I here defy your power, my soul you shall not have ; 

My body hath subjected me to sin and death thro' all my life, 

And had the lead to all my trouble, and to all my strife ; 

Yes, take this body which I heartily resign ; 

My soul thereby to realms of glory most sublime, 

Shall take its flight, by guardian angels, to my Saviour dear, 

There to have unknown joys, and know no dread or fear ; 

Where I have long time chose to take my last and safe remove, 

To be above the skies, with all the hosts of heavenly love. 

And you bold death, this body shall not always keep ; , 

For my Redeemer, with his voice of power andlove most sweet, 

Shall raise it a new body, fit for joys unknown before, 

To be forever blessed, and be remov'd no more. 

Farewell my wife, my friends, and children all adieu. 

And take the road, I have in life mark'd out to you. 

Forsake the world, and all its flattering streams and toys ; 

That we together may be possest of all eternal joys. 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



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INDEX OF NAMES. 



Abbe, Elizabeth, 59 

Eunice, 59 

Haunah, 58 

John, 58 

Mary, 36, 56, 58, 59 

Tabitha, 59 
Abbott, Elizabeth, 45 
Adams, Benoni, 20 

Catherine C., 31 

Helen Eliza Redington, 
27 

Henry, 26 

Henry Herschel(Col.), 25, 
26, 27, 36 

Henry Herschel, Jr. 
(Capt.), 31 

John Quincy, 26 

Laura Grace, 27 

Louise Lyman, 31 

Lowell Leonard, 27 

Lowell L., 25 

Mabel Stella, 27, 31, 32 

Mary Helen, 31 

Nellie Kedington, 27, 30, 
31 
Akid, Mary, 46 
Alexander, Eliza, 60 

Joseph, 60 

Sarah, 60 
Allen, James (Rev.). 47 
Armitage, Thomas, 40 
Arrighi, Charles Thurber, 28 
Ashforth, Albert Blackhurst, 
31,32 

George, 31, 32 

Henry Adams, 32 
Askwith, Simon, 45 
Atherton, Humphrey (Maj. 

Gen.),40, 41, 42, 50 

Isabel, 42, 50 
Averill, Isaac, 11 
Ayers, Joseph, 56 

Babcock, Anna, 59 

Nathan, 57 
Badger, Joseph, Jr. (Ens.), 14, 

15 
Baker, Cynthia, 20 
Barker, Mary (Mrs.), 46 

Thomas, 46 
Barnard, Edward (Capt.), 15 
Barrett, Helen Adams, 31 

John David, 30, 31 

John David, Jr., 31 

John Thorndike, 30 

Redington, 31 
Barringtou, Francis (Sir), 46 
Bass, Lucy, 21 

Obadiah, 21 
Bayley, Mary, 7, 11 
Bellamy, Eunice Corinthia, 17, 

19 
Bentley, Harriet, 57 
Berrie, Ellis, 45 

James, 44, 45 
Billings, Ebenezer, 49 

Elizabeth, 50 

Richard, (Rev.), 49 

Roger, 50 
Blackhurst, Louise J., 31 
Blake, Edward, 36 

Susanna, 36, 49, 52 

William, 36, 52 
Bliss, John, 57 



Blodgett, Charles Rufus, 17 

Helen Frances, 17 

James J., 17 
Blow, Susan G., 30 
Bigsbey, Joseph, 6 
Biiigliiini, Thomas, 51 
Birmingham, William, 4 
Bond, Agnes (Mrs.), 36, 52 

Richard, 52 
Bower, Jeremiah, 40 

Jereniic, 45 

Nathaniel, 45 
Boyes, Elizabeth, 46 

Joseph, 45 

Matthew, 45, 46 

Matthew, Jr., 45 

Nathaniel, 45, 46 
Bradstreet, Simon (Hon.), 48 
Brafitt, James, 45 
Brewster, Grace, 54 
Brook, Tliomas, 45 
Brooks, Edward (Dr.), 30 
Bullock, Edward, 41, 42 
Burke, Christopher, 3, 4 

Marcel la, 3 

Sarah, 4 
Burns, (Dr.), 19 

Emma, 19 
Burr, Lydia, 14 
Burrill, Elizabeth, 9 
Bush, Martha Heddenbergh, 

14 
Butler, Jane 47 

Thomas, 47 

Capen, Joseph (Rev.), 6 
Carey, Joseph, 51 
Carpenter, Daniel, 59 
Carter, Alice, 25, 29,30 

Charles John Jewell, 25 

Cornelia IVI. Redington, 
25 

Grace Alice, 25 

Helen Redington, 25, 28 

Joy Ivy, 30 

Ivucile Polk, 29 

William, 24 

William Thornton, 24, 25, 
36 

William Thornton 2d, 29 

William Ernest, 25, 29 
Cary, Ebenezer, 54 
Case, Clara B., 20, .36 
Chapin, Ilenrv W., 19 
Child, John, 50 
Clioat, John (Col.), 8 
Choate, John (Hon.), 12 
Clap, Thomas (Rev.), 56 
Clark, Benjamin, 58 

Daniel, 7 

Israel, (Capt.), 12 

Silas. 21 
Clarkson, John, 44 

Sarah (Mrs.), 44 
Clavering, Elizabeth, 39, 47 
Clement, Elizabeth, 13 

Nathaniel, 13 

Robert (Esq.), 13 
Cloudsley, Anthony, 45 
Coggswell, Elisha, 15 
Colt, (Rev. Dr.), 59 

Joseph Howland, 59 
Cole, Simeon, 60 
Colfax, Charlotte Y., 18 



Coming, John, 6 
Cook, John, 14 
Cue, Robert, 
Cutting, Elizabeth, 61 

Dana, James (Gen.), 16 
Daly, Malachy, 4 
Davison, Daniel, 7 

Dorothy, 7, 10 

Elizabeth, 6, 7 
Deane, Silas, 53 
Dearborn, Isaac, 18 
Delano, Jonathan, .52, 53 
Denison, Prudence, 5.3, 54 
Dennison, Miijur, 5 
Dewey, Addison, 18 
Dickerman, Charles Heber 
(Hon.), 30 

William Carter, 25, 30 
Dobson, Samuel, 46 
Dodge, Hannah, 11 

Israel, (Capt.), 11 
Dolphin, Eleanor, 4 

JohH (Esq.), 4 
Dowell, Henry, 4 

Frances, 4 
Downes, .John, 45, 46 
Druroy, John, 44 

Sarah, (Mrs.), 44 

Edison, Simeon O., 17 
Elderkin, (Col.), 54 
Emerson, Emily E., 22 

William, (Rev.), 47 
Emery, Zacliariah, 9 
Everard, John, 40 

Sarah, 46 
Ezekiel, Rogers (Rev.), 46 

Faxon, Joanna, 50 

Thomas, 50 
Fearnley, Anne, 41 
Fellows, Jacob, 10 
Ferguson, John Calhoun, 17 
Kisk, Samuel, 6 
Fitch, Elenczer, 54 
Flower, John, 14 
Foote, Arthur Redington, 19 

Samuel I., 19 
Forrest, (Gen.), 26 
Fo.Ster, Bertha, 22 
French, Margaret, 4 

Thomas, 4 
Fuller, Elizabeth, 55 

Garvin, JFaria Jlitchell, 60 
Gates, Temperance, 15, 18 
George, Micholas, 51 
Gibson, Alice, 39, 40 

Anne, .39, 40 

John, 39, 40 
Ginning, Jonathan, 59 
tjoiidwiii, Elizabeth, 9 
Gould, Jolin, 6 

Johanna, 6 

Mary, 3, 6 

Phebe, 6 

Zaccheus, 4, 6 
Gray, John, 45 

Thomas, 54 
Greenway, John, 42 

.><usanna, 39, 42 
Grissell, Klizabetli, 58 
Griswold, Polly, 15, IS 



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Gunter, Edith, 40 
Humptirey, 40 

Hale, Israel, 48 

Martlia, 48 

Patrick, 00 
Haller, Catherine, 20 
Hamilton, Mary, :i 
Hard, Hale (Dr.), 59 

Jane Harriet, 59 

Leviue, 59 

Martin, 59 

Mary, 59 

Noble, 59 

Trueman, 59 
Harriman, Hannah, 13 

Matthew, Vi 
Harris, William T. (Dr.), 29 
Hart, Caroline M. C, 29 
Harvard, John, 40 
Haynes, Hannah, 10, 13 

Jonathan, 13 

Josepli, 12, 13, 15 

Mary, 13 

Sarali, 10, 15 

Thomas, 13 
Hayward, Oliver, 47 
Herrick, John, 6 
Hickson, Editli, 46 

Elkanah, 46 

Robert, 40, 42, 46 
Hitchiu, Joseph, 45 
Hobson, John, 38 
Hood, John, 9 
Horsraan, Anne, 45 
Horton, l<:zra (Kev.), 55 
Hovey, Dan, 6 
Howard, Oliver Otis (Gen.), 

26 
Hewlett, Jr., Samuel, 9 
Hubbard, Elizabeth, 7, 9 

Pliilip, 9 
Hudsmaugh, Mary, 45, 46 
Humphrey, Arthur, 59 
Huntington, Lydia, 49, 52 

Jacques, Julia Ann, 18 
Jenliinson, .Sarah, 46 
Jennings, Jonathan, 58 
Jewell, (Miss), 25 
Johnson, Edward F., 14 

Frances E., 57 
Jordan, Robert, 49 
Justice, William W., 30 

Keyes, Asa, 59 

Ephraim, 59 

John (Gen.), 59 

Sarah, 59 
King, Ashael, 18 

Eunice, 15, 18 

Gideon, (Capt.), 17 
Kingsbury, Anna, 10, 15 
Kuowlton, Sarali, 11 

Ladd, Jr., Samuel, 12 

Larned, Abijah, 56 

Laselle, Jeruslia, 54 

Lawrence, James, (Dr.) 57 
Elizabeth, 57 

Lawyer, Demosthenes, 60 
(Genenil), 16,60 

Leldy, Carter Randolph, 29 
Cornelia Carter, 29 
Joseph (Dr.), 25, 28, 29 
Helen Redington Carter, 

29 
Phillip (Dr.), 28 
Phillip Ludwell, 29 

Leonard, Hazadiah, 60 

Lewis, Adam, 20 

Chloe, 17, 20, 56 

Little, John, 53 

Lockwood, Gardner S., 19 

Lsomis, Sarah, 57 



Lowe, John (Dr.), 60 
Lyman, George C., 31 

Louise, 31 
Lynch, John Wilson, 4 

Margaret, 3 
Lumby, Joslma, 45 
Lummus, Jonathan, 7 

Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 30 
Mack worth, Mrs., 49 
Marsh, Jonathan, 13 

Mehitable, 13 
Marshall, John, 39 
Mason, John, 49 
Mather, Cotton (Rev.), 46 

Increase, (Dr.), 45 

Richard (Hev.), 40 
Maude, Daniel (Rev.), 40 
Meeks, Typhemia T., 19 
Memersley, Timothy, 42 
Merrill, Catherine Russell, 21, 

28 
Miller, Jedidiali (Judge), 17,60 
Milner, John, 47 
Miner, Charles E., 21 
Mitchell, Catherine, 60 

Charles (Dr.), 60 

Harriet, 60 

Henry (Dr.), 60 

Henry Haller, 20, 36 

John, 60 

Maria, 60 

Mary, 60 

William, 20 
Montgomery, George Reding- 
ton, 22 

Giles Foster (Rev.), 22 

Mary Williams, 22 

William F., 17 
Moor, Marke, 46 
Moore, Edith Redington, 20 

John Brackett, 20, 36 

Jonathan Lovejoy, 20 

Lydia Sargent, 20 

Redington, 20 
More, Ira, 17 

Kate, 17 
Morgan, Achsha, 13 

Amos, 13 

Daniel, 13 

Diantha, 13 

Elizabeth, 13 

Hannah, 13 

Joel, 13 

John, 13 

Joshua, 13 

Mehitable, 13 
Morse, Stuart (M.D.), 14 
Mosley, Samuel (Capt.), 48 
Moulton Mary, 13 

Sarah, 13 

William, 13 
Mudge, John, 12 
Mumford, Joseph P., 30 
Munroe, Joshua, 60 

Wales, 60 
Munsell, Dorothy (Mrs.), 10 

Elisha, 10 

Nelson, George, 39 

Rachel, 57 
Newcomb, Jemima, 55 
Newconibe, Tliomas, 10 
Norton, Sarah, 56 

Osgood, Christopher (Capt.), 6 
Oxenbridge, John (Rev.), 47 

Page, Margaret, 13 

Robert (Esq.), 13 
Palmer, Mary, 58 

Samuel, 58 

Walter, 58 
Parke, Samuel, 60 
Parker, Anne, 39, 47 



Parsons, Samuel Holden, 53 

Patch, Mary, 11 

Peabody, Francis (Lieut.), 8 

Isaac, 8 

Philadelphia, 7 
Peake, Hannah, 51 

Jonathan, 51 
Peale, Ruth, 45 
Perkins, Nathaniel,? 
Perriu, Dorotliy, 56 
Phillips, Allan B., 21 
Pierce, James F., 21 

JIary Jane, 14 

William C, 21 
Polk, Lucille Stewart, 25, 29 

Penelope Fontaine 
Maury, 28 

William Stewart, 29 
Pope, Jane, 52 

John, 52 

Patience, .36, 52 
Prince, Thomas, 45 
Putnam, Israel (Col.), 15 
Pynchon (Major), 48 
Randall, l<"rances Wales, 60 
Katliburn, Anna, 15 

Daniel, 15 

Love, 15 
Kedlngton, Abraham, 5, 6, 7, 
10, 11 

Adam, 11 

Alfred, 18 

Alfred P., 5 

Alexander Hamilton, 15 

Alexander Hyde, 15 

Ann, 11, 12 

Anna, 8, 12, 15 

Anna M., 21 

Anna Mudge, 12 

Anne, 4, 10 

Anne Eliza, 4 

Annie, 14 

Arthur Calvin, 22 

Bertram Asahel, 22 

Bridget, 4 

Bridget (Mrs.), 14 

Charles Medad, 21 

Christopher, 4 

Clarissa, 18 

Cornelia Eliza, 17 

Cornelia Miranda, 20, 24, 
36 

Daniel, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 
14, 15 

Dorcas, 7, 8, 9, 10 

Dorothy, 10 

Edmund Bush, 14 

Edward Jaques, 18 

Edward John, 22 

Edward Kingsbury, 19 

Eli, 14 

Eliphalet, 10, 15 

Elisha Smith, 17 

Eliza, 7 

Elizabeth, 47, 7, 9, 12, 14, 
15 

Elizabeth (Mrs.), 7,8, 15 

FJmnia L., 19 

Emeline, 18 

Emily, 22 

Enoch, 11 

Esther, 11, 12 

Esther (Mrs.), 8 

Frances, 4, 19 

Frances Ann, 23 

George, 18, 21 

George Franklin, 14 

George Nathaniel, 23 

George Owen, 22 

George S.,21 

Gregory, .3 

Hannah Dodge, 11 

Hannah Haynes, 13 

Harriette C., 21 

Harry, 18 



85 



Eedlngton, cont'd. 

Helen Eliza, 20, 25, 36 

Henry, 3 

Henry H., 18 

Henry Vining, 21 

Honore, 4 

Jacob, 7,0, 10, 11, 12, 13, 

H, 15, 17, 18 
Jacob Smith, IS 
James, 18, 22 
James King, 23 
James JI. J., 19 
Jane E., 21 
John, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 

13, 14, 17 
John (Oapt.), 15, 16, 36, 

59, (iO 
John Calvin Owen (Col.), 

21 
John Harris (Rev.), 18, 21 
John Jacob, 21 
John Jedidiah, 10 
Jolin Wales, 17, 19 
Jonathan, 9 
Joseph Alexander, 17, 19, 

36 
Julia A., 19 
Julia Corinthia, 19 
Julia JI., 17 
Julia Mary, 20, 36 
Juliette, 18 
Kingsbury, 18 
Laura Augusta, 19 
Laura Alrnira, 17 
Laura Helen, 20 
Laura Mors^e, 14 
Levine Lodoviclc, 20 
Louise A., 19 
Love, 15 
Lucinda, 14 
Lucius, 18, 19 
Lucy, 14, 18 
Lyman King, 18 
Lyman Williams, 27 
Margaret, 4, 7, 8, 14 
Margaret (Mrs.), 5 
Mary, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 

18 
Mary Anne, 14 
Mary Chapman, 23 
Mary E., 19, 21 
Mary Lucy, 15 
Mary Patterson, 28 
Mary Therese, 4 
Martha, 6, 7 
Michael, 4 
Mira, 15 

Miriam Clarissa, 17 
Myra, 18 
Nancy, 18 
Nancy Juliette, 18 
Nathaniel, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 

18 
Nicholas, 3, 4 
Olive, 10, 11, 12, 14 
Paul Merril, 28 
Phebe, (i, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 

18 
Pliineas, 7, 10, 11 
Polly, 14, 18 
Remsen, 15 
Robert Francis (Ensign), 

14 
Sarah, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 

15, 18 
Sarah A., 19,21 
Sarah Elizabeth, 23 
Stella, 20 

Stella Josephine, .36 
Submit, 12 
Teresa, 18 
Therese, 15 
Thomas, 3, 4, 5, 8 
Thomas Gregory, 28 
Thomas Haynes, 17 



Redington, cont'd. 

Tliomas Nicholas (Sir), 4 
Walter Joseph, 20,36 
West, 14 

William, 3, 7,8, 10, 11, 12 
William Lyman, 21 

Remsen, Doremus M., 19 

Ripley, Charles, 59 

Robinson, James, 47 

Rodgers, Ezekiel (Rev.), 38 

Rogers, Daniel (Rev.), 46 
Richard (Rev.), 46 

Root, Elihu (Hon.), 57 

Roper, Walter, 5 

Rossiter, Erastus, 14 

Russell, Benjamin, 58 

Ryder, Hiram H., 19 



Sagar, James, 43, 44 
Sale, James (Rev.) , 43, 44, 45, 46 
Salmon, Luther, IS 
Saltniarsh, Orlando Tyner, 14 
Sanborn, Lucy J., 20 
Seeley, Jacob, 18 
Selden, George (Dr.), 10 
Sessions, Nathaniei, 57 
Seward, William H, (Hon.), 22 
Sewell, Thomas, 44, 45 
Seymour, Kate L., 27 
Sharp, Joseph, 60 
Sheldon, Amasa (Capt.), 21 

Charles, 21 

Loraine Williams, 18, 21 

Medad, 21 
Shutts, Abraham, 17 
Silliman, Ebenezer, 53 
Simmons, Joshua, 18 
Smith, Elisha (Lieut), 55 

Esther, 36, 53, 55 

Gilbert (Dr.), 15 

Henry, 55 

Seth, 55 

Timothy, 47 

William, 6 
Snelling, William (Dr.), 41 
Snow, Samuel, 58 
Spaulding, Frances E., 14 
Stable, Samuel, 45 
Stevens, Elizabeth (Mrs.), 7, 8 
Stillington, Thomas, 45 
Stone, Amoretta, 18, 21 
.Strait, Maria Louise, 14 
Strong, Lucy, 56 
Sumner, Benjamin, 58 
Sutell, John, 44 
Sutton, Frances, 28 

Frances W., 21 
Swaine, Benjamin, 44, 45 

Samuel, 44, 45 
Swan, Robert (Esq.), 13 
Swanger, Emma I., 22 

George F., 22 
Swift, Lucy, 18 
Symond, Samuel (Hon.), 5 

Talbot, Anna Eliza JIary, 4 

John Hyacinth, 4 
Thomas, Mary, 24 
Thompson, Esther, 11 
Thoresby, Ralph, 44 
Thorne, Hugli, 52 
Thurston, John, 55 

Margaret (Mrs.), 56 

Mary, 55 
Tinan, Alice, 30 
Todd, Rev. Mr., 42 
Tower, Barnabas, 40 
Town, Edmund, 6 
Trumbull, Joseph, 53 

Vicars, John, 45 

Waite, Harriet Mitchell, 60 
Walbridge, T. Chester (Mrs.)i 
25 



Wales, Abner, .54 
Abigail, 54 
Almiran, 60 
Anna, 42, 56 
Anne, 56 

Atherton (Rev.), ."iO, 61 
Benjamin, 39, 40, 45 ._- 
Clara, !)7 
Clarissa, 60 
Constantia, 44, 45 
Content, 40 

Ebenezer, 36, 52, 56, 65 
Ebenezer (Meut ), .59 
Ebenezer (Deacon), 53, 

54 55 57 
Edmund' Levi Bull, 57 
Edward Howe, 57 
Eleazer, 40, 52 
Eleazer (Dr.), 56, 57 
Eleazav (Kev ), 53 
Kli Bentley, 57 
Elijah, 57 
Elisha, 56, 58 
Elisha (Capt.), 36. 57 
Elisha Smith, 17, 36, 59 
Elisha Smith (Dr.), 00 
EUzabeth, 44, 45, 49, 50, 

56 
Elizabeth (Mrs.), 42, 44 
Elkanah (Rev.), 38, 30, 

40, 42, 43, 45, 47, 49 
Elmira, 60 
Esther, 57 
Frances, 60 
Hannah, 49, 59 
Irene, 57 

James Lawrence, 57 
Jerusha, 54 
John, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,41, 

42, 44, 49 
John (Hon.), 50 
John t Rev.), 50 
Jonathan, 38, 39, 40, 51 
Jonathan (Lieut.), 54 
Laura, 13, 17, 30, 59, 60 
Leonard Eugene, 50 
Lydia, 57 

Margaret (Mrs.), 36,39 
Mary, 42, 51, 59, 60 
Miriam, 60 
Nathan (Capt.), 59 
Nathaniel, 36, 37, 39, 40, 

41, 42, 44, 48, 40, 50, 
51, 52, 53, 54, 56 

Nathaniel (Capt.), 54 

Natlianiel (Elder), 50 

Nehemiah, 40, 44 

Oliver, 57 

Oliver (Capt.), 57 

Prudence, 54 

Roger (Dr.), 57 

Rosamond, 40, 45 

Rowena, 60 

Ruth (Mrs.), 57 

Salem Howe, 57 

Samuel, 38, 44, 45, 46, 50, 51 

Samuel (Rev.), 39 

Sarah, 42, 57, 59 

Seth, 50, 57 

Shubal, 54, 57 

Solomon, 57 

Solomon (Capt.), 56 

Susanna, 41. 52, 54, 57 

Timothy, :i6, 30,40,41,42, 
47, 48, 53, 54, 57 

William, .H 

Zerviah, 54 
Walker, Elias, 18 
Ward, Deborah, 53 

Jesse, 50 
Washburn, Asahel (Rev.), 21 

Emily, 18, 21 
Watorliouse, Samuel, 39 
Watkins, Benjamin, 59 

Edward, 17, 59 



86 



Watkins, cont'd. 

Mary, 17, 36,59 

Mehitable, 59 

Miriam, 13, 17, 59 

Thadeus, 59 

William (Capt.),59 
Wattles, Sarah, 52 
Weed, Gorilla C, 31 
Welfltt, Jeremie, 45 
Wells, Charles Blodgett, 17 

Miriam Redington, 17 

Ward, 17 
West, Bathsheba, 53 

Charles, 10 

David, 53 

Ebenezer, 53 

Ebenezer (Hon.), 52 

Kleazer, 10 

Francis, 54 



West, cont'd. 

John, 10 

Jonathan, 53 

Joshua, 62 

Mercy, 53, 54 

Olive, 10 

Samuel, 12 

Sarah, 9, 12, 52 

Susanna, 53 

Thankful, 10 

William, 14 
Wetmore, Mary, 56 
Whaland, Elizabeth, 21 
Wharton, (Lord), 39 

Philip (Sir), 39 
Wheelock, Eleazer (Capt.), 55 

Elizabeth, 55 

Ralph (Rev.). 55 
Whitou, Elijah, 58 



Whittemore, William Howe 

(Rev.), 55 
Wildes, Ephraim, 7 

Sarah, 7 
Wilkinson, Samuel, 45 
Wilson, John (Rev.), 46 

Thomas, 21 
Williams, Elizabeth, 52 
Wisewell, Ichabod, 47 

John, 41 
Wisv^all, William, 19 
Witliington, John, 49 
Wolcott, Erastus, 53 
Wood, Deborah, 56 
Wright, Ann (Mrs.), 10 

Benjamin, Jr., 10 

Mary, 9 

Samuel, 48 
Vicars, John, 45 



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